7 Bible Verses about Helplessness
Most Relevant Verses
there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself.
For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!
The invalid replied, "Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath, when the water is disturbed; and while I am getting down myself, someone else gets in before me."
No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).
when a man lame from birth was carried past, who used to be laid every day at what was called the 'Beautiful Gate' of the temple, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.
For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.