7 Bible Verses about Helplessness

and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a disease caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.

For when we were still helpless, Christ at the proper time died for us ungodly men.

The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the last day.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.

when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.