The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”
For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.
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