34 Bible Verses about Unable To Do Other Things

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."

and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.

The magicians tried with their secret arts to bring forth lice, but they couldn't. There were lice on man, and on animal.

Moses wasn't able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and the LORD's glory filled the tabernacle.

Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth."

David strapped his sword on his clothing, and he tried to move; for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, "I can't go with these; for I have not tested them." David took them off.

Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

Zedekiah the king said, "Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you."

I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"

And when they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof above him. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

And he came into a house, and the crowd came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

and he from within will answer and say, 'Do not bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give it to you'?

"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'

Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish.'

Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come."

What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come'?"

Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come."

The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come?'"

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jewish leaders, 'Where I am going, you cannot come,' so now I tell you.

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow afterwards."

We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Look, the world has gone after him."

Whoever is born of God does not commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.