14 Bible Verses about Helplessness
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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.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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."
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
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.
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.
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.
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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