34 Bible Verses about Unable To Do Other Things

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

But they replied, “We can’t until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well’s opening. Then we will water the sheep.”

“We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us.

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad the Egyptians could not drink water from it. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on man and beast.

Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

But Saul replied, “You can’t go fight this Philistine. You’re just a youth, and he’s been a warrior since he was young.”

David strapped his sword on over the military clothes and tried to walk, but he was not used to them. “I can’t walk in these,” David said to Saul, “I’m not used to them.” So David took them off.

Damascus has become weak;
she has turned to run;
panic has gripped her.
Distress and labor pains have seized her
like a woman in labor.

King Zedekiah said, “Here he is; he’s in your hands since the king can’t do anything against you.”

Then I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river. He raised both his hands toward heaven and swore by Him who lives eternally that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people is shattered, all these things will be completed.

Since he had no way to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

Since they could not pay it back, he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more?”

Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Then He went home, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat.

Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’

“And another said, ‘I just got married, and therefore I’m unable to come.’

Otherwise, after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all the onlookers will begin to make fun of him,

saying, ‘This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

for I will give you such words and a wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

Then He said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

“Lord,” Simon Peter said to Him, “where are You going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us.”

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look—the world has gone after Him!”

Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed remains in him; he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.