7 Bible Verses about Helplessness

And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

When we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful to beg alms of those who entered the temple.

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will to do what is good, but I cannot do it.