14 Bible Verses about Helplessness

And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. And she was bent over, and not being able to straighten up completely.

For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.

The infirmed man answered him, Sir, I have no man so that when the water is agitated he might put me into the pool, but while I am coming another steps down before me.

No man can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

I am the grapevine, ye are the branches. He who dwells in me, and I in him, this man bears much fruit, because without me ye can do nothing.

And a certain man, being lame from his mother's belly, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask charity from those who entered into the temple,

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor.

Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.

Is it not that I have no help in me, and that wisdom is driven quite from me?

He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased?

In my distress I called upon LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.

For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.