14 Bible Verses about Helplessness
Most Relevant Verses
A woman had an evil spirit that kept her sick for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not stand straight.
While we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
The sick man replied: I have no man to put me in the pool when the water is stirred. Others step down before I can go.
No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him. I will resurrect him (raise him up) in the last day.
I am the vine and you are the branches. He that remains with me, and I with him, the same bears much fruit. You can do nothing apart from me.
A man who had been crippled from birth was carried to the gate of the temple called Beautiful. There he begged for handouts from those who entered the temple.
I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
Arise, O Jehovah! Lift your hand, O God. Do not forget oppressed people!
Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all who are appointed to destruction. Open your mouth and judge righteously. Plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
He waits in ambush in the villages. From his hiding places he kills innocent people. He searches for victims.
I called on Jehovah in my distress. I cried to my God for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help reached his ears.
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.