'Unable' in the Bible
And when they were unable to get near him because of all the people, they got the roof uncovered where he was: and when it was broken up, they let down the bed on which the man was.
And he was unable to do any work of power there, but only to put his hands on one or two persons who were ill, and make them well.
And when he had gone into the house, his disciples said to him privately, Why were we unable to send it out?
Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for witness against Jesus so that they might put him to death; and they were unable to get any.
When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?
And why are you, in your hearts, unable to be judges of what is right?
And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.
And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.
The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.
And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.
In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.
Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.
Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him.
For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,
And because I was unable to see because of the glory of that light, those who were with me took me by the hand, and so I came to Damascus.
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;
Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?
Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.
Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.
But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.