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Helplessness

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Romans 8:26–27

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. — read the full passage →

Mark 11:24

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Hebrews 4:15

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Acts 16:31

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Romans 10:13

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Luke 6:37

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Mark 15:34

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Hebrews 13:5

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

1 Timothy 2:1–15

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

1 John 2:1

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Colossians 3:17

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Psalms 2:1–12

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →

Psalms 35:10

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Hebrews 12:2–3

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. — read the full passage →

Romans 5:6

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Colossians 1:1–29

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Romans 9:20–25

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” — read the full passage →

Mark 9:24

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

Ephesians 2:3–5

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 1:7–9

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort. — read the full passage →

Romans 8:29

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 8:3–4

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Romans 5:14

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

Romans 3:22–24

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, — read the full passage →

Luke 18:13–14

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ — read the full passage →

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Psalms 10:13–15

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?” — read the full passage →

Job 1:13–20

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house, — read the full passage →

Revelation 21:7–8

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 2:17–18

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. — read the full passage →

Romans 5:14–15

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. — read the full passage →

Romans 5:12

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 5:5–7

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. — read the full passage →

Romans 2:11–13

For there is no partiality with God. — read the full passage →

John 8:3–5

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, — read the full passage →

John 3:17–19

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. — read the full passage →

Luke 23:40–43

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? — read the full passage →

Luke 23:34

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

Luke 18:2–8

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man. — read the full passage →

Mark 14:36

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Mark 12:30

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

Mark 11:25

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

Mark 11:22–24

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. — read the full passage →

Mark 10:46–48

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. — read the full passage →

Mark 5:25–26

A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, — read the full passage →

Mark 5:2–8

When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs. — read the full passage →

Matthew 26:51–54

Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear. — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:14–15

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.” — read the full passage →

Matthew 18:12–14

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? — read the full passage →

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Matthew 10:18–20

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 50:33–35

Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 33:7–9

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 29:20–22

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off— — read the full passage →

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 6:12–15

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth; — read the full passage →

Psalms 61:3–4

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy. — read the full passage →

Psalms 51:5

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

Psalms 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalms 1:5–6

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. — read the full passage →

Job 19:25–26

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. — read the full passage →

Genesis 29:23–26

In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. — read the full passage →

Genesis 21:14–21

Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. — read the full passage →

Genesis 16:6–11

But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face. — read the full passage →

Philippians 2:6–7

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:17–19

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

Romans 8:37–39

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →

Acts 5:4

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

Acts 2:23

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

John 17:5

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

John 15:5

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

John 8:24

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

Mark 10:38–40

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” — read the full passage →

Mark 7:6

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Mark 5:27–34

having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. — read the full passage →

Matthew 9:16–17

No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 59:21

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”

Isaiah 49:14–16

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.” — read the full passage →

Isaiah 40:10–11

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. — read the full passage →

Psalms 54:4

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

Psalms 23:1–6

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Job 2:7

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

Deuteronomy 31:5–6

Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

2 Thessalonians 1:1–12

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Luke 18:19

Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one—God.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

Mark 12:40

those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

Mark 7:9

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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