Bible Verses about Dependence
| For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Do not fear, I will help you.” | For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. |
| Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. | Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. |
| The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps. | A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. |
| My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. | My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. |
| I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. | I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. |
| The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established. | There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand. |
| I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. | I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. |
| He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. | He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. |
| Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with whatever I have. | Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. |
| He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. | He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. |
| So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today. | Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. |
| Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. | Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. |
| The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters. | The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. |
| I keep the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. | I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. |
| The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to keep still. | The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. |
| Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain. | Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. |
| The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. | The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. |
| When I thought, “My foot is slipping,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. | When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. |
| But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to make this freewill offering? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. | But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. |
| Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me in a broad place. | I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place. |
| In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that will come after them. | In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. |
| Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge. | Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. |
| And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. | So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. |
| For not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, for you delighted in them. | For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. |
| Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved. | Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
Bible verse of the day
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.