14 Bible Verses about Helplessness
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And just then there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
For while we were yet 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, but while I'm 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 in the last day.
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they put daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.
Arise, LORD. God, lift up your hand. Do not forget the helpless.
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
