John 5:7
"Sir," replied the sufferer, "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved; but while I am coming some one else steps down before me."
Romans 5:6
For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For as for our troubles which came upon us in the province of Asia, we would have you know, brethren, that we were exceedingly weighed down, and felt overwhelmed, so that we renounced all hope even of life.
John 5:3
In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.