John 5:7
The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."
Romans 5:6
For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life;
John 5:3
where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble.