John 5:7
The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."
Romans 5:6
For when we were still helpless, Christ at the proper time died for us ungodly men.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For I do not want you to be uninformed about the sorrow that I suffered in Asia, because I was so crushed beyond any power to endure that I was in dire despair of life itself.
John 5:3
and in these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people, blind, crippled, paralyzed.