Bible verses about "dependence" | Noyes

²¹ For prophecy never came by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke from God.

⁵⁰ This is the bread which is coming down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eat of my bread, he will live for ever. Yea, and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. ⁵² The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ⁵³ Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. ⁵⁴ He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life; and I will raise him up in the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As the living Father sent me, and I live by reason of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live by reason of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread will live for ever. ⁵⁹ These things he said in a synagogue, while teaching in Capernaum. ⁶⁰ Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This teaching is hard; who can listen to it? ⁶¹ Jesus therefore knew within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, and said to them, Doth this offend you? ⁶² What then if ye behold the Son of man ascending where he was before? ⁶³ It is the spirit which maketh alive; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him. ⁶⁵ And he said, For this cause I have told you, that no one can come to me, unless it hath been given him from the Father. ⁶⁶ From this time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. ⁶⁷ Jesus therefore said to the twelve, Do ye also wish to go away? ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of everlasting life; ⁶⁹ and we have believed and known, that thou art the Holy One of God. ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you twelve? and one of you is a devil! ⁷¹ He spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for it was he that was about to betray him, being one of the twelve.

⁸ For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; ⁹ yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead;

⁴⁷ Truly, truly do I say to you, He that believeth hath everlasting life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and died. ⁵⁰ This is the bread which is coming down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.

⁹ But concerning brotherly love there is no need of writing to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; ¹⁰ for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to abound in love still more; ¹¹ and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; ¹² that ye may walk becomingly toward those without, and may have need of nothing.

⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit; for apart from me ye can do nothing.