34 Bible Verses about Unable To Do Other Things

When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."

They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.

And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth."

and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, "I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them." So David put them off.

Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in labor.

King Zedekiah said, "Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can do nothing against you."

And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.

And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?"

And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.

and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'?

And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'

And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come."

What does he mean by saying, 'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?"

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?"Jesus answered him, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward."

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me."

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him."

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.