14 Bible Verses about Helplessness

And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was bowed together and could in no wise lift herself up.

For the Christ, when we were yet weak, in his time died for the ungodly.

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.

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

I AM the vine, ye are the branches: he that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those that entered into the temple,

And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand; forget not the humble.

Open thy mouth for those who cannot speak in the judgment of all the sons of death. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and destitute.

Am I not doing all that I can, and even with all this I lack the power to do anything?

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me.

In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried unto my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

But we were all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all fell as the leaves of a tree; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.