14 Bible Verses about Helplessness
Most Relevant Verses
a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment, Christ died for the ungodly.
“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of 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. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.
And a man who was lame from birth was carried there and placed every day at the temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg from those entering the temple complex.
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
Rise up, Lord God! Lift up Your hand.
Do not forget the afflicted.
Speak up for those who have no voice,
for the justice of all who are dispossessed.
Speak up, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy.
He waits in ambush near the villages;
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;
Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
I called to the Lord in my distress,
and I cried to my God for help.
From His temple He heard my voice,
and my cry to Him reached His ears.
All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment;
all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
