Thematic Bible: Human Weakness
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human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
human Weakness » Renders men dependent upon God
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
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O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
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Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORDwatches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
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I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
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John answered, "A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
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Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
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human Weakness » Helplessness, physical and spiritual of man
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
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And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.
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No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
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And there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.
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For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
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The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me."
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For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Israel could not stand before their enemies
But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
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So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.
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Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
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human Weakness » Manifested in all men
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
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"I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
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And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, "So, could you not watch with me one hour?
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I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.
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human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Effeminacy, general references to
A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!
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In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the LORD of hosts shakes over them.
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The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
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Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.
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human Weakness » Man's extremity, of weakness, becomes God's opportunity to help, » The father of the demoniac
And someone from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able."
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me."
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human Weakness » Man's extremity, of weakness, becomes God's opportunity to help, » The disciples in the storm
But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"
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And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,
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human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Unbelief rendered the apostles helpless to contend with satanic forces
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
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And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able."
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human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Apostasy produced a nation of cowards
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.
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human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
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human Weakness » Man's extremity, of weakness, becomes God's opportunity to help, » The sick woman
And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » A broken covenant stripped samson of his strength
And he told her all his heart, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man."
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human Weakness » Man's extremity, of weakness, becomes God's opportunity to help, » The psalmist
The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.
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human Weakness » Man's extremity, of weakness, becomes God's opportunity to help, » Paul and his companions on the sea
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
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human Weakness » Man's extremity, of weakness, becomes God's opportunity to help, » Peter in prison
Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.
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human Weakness » Man's extremity, of weakness, becomes God's opportunity to help, » The disciples facing a hungry multitude
"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?"
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