John 5:7
"I have no one, Sir," the afflicted man answered, "to put me into the Bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, some one else steps down before me."
Romans 5:6
Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
We want you, Brothers, to know that, in the troubles which befell us in Roman Asia, we were burdened altogether beyond our strength, so much so that we even despaired of life.
John 5:3
In these colonnades a large number of afflicted people were lying--blind, lame, and crippled.