John 5:7
The sick man answered him,“Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.”
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- Deut 32:36 : 36 The LORD will judge his people, and will change his plans concerning his servants; when he sees that their power has disappeared, and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.
- Ps 142:4 : 4 Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.
- 1 Cor 9:24 : 24 Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.
- 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living. 9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead. 10 He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,
- Ps 72:12 : 12 For he will rescue the needy when they cry out for help, and the oppressed who have no defender.
- Rom 5:6 : 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- John 5:3 : 3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.
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12 They asked him,“Who is the man who said to you,‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
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