Bible verses about "dependence" | WNT

²¹ for never did any prophecy come by human will, but men sent by God spoke as they were impelled by the Holy Spirit.

⁵⁰ Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world." ⁵² This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ "In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you. ⁵⁴ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I remain in union with him. ⁵⁷ As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever." ⁵⁹ Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum. ⁶⁰ Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?" ⁶¹ But, knowing in Himself that His disciples were dissatisfied about it, Jesus asked them, ⁶² "Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before? ⁶³ It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words 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 those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him. ⁶⁵ So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father." ⁶⁶ Thereupon many of His disciples left Him and went away, and no longer associated with Him. ⁶⁷ Jesus therefore appealed to the Twelve. "Will you go also?" He asked. ⁶⁸ "Master," replied Simon Peter, "to whom shall we go? Your teachings tell us of the Life of the Ages. ⁶⁹ And we have come to believe and know that *you* are indeed the Holy One of God." ⁷⁰ "Did not I choose you--the Twelve?" said Jesus, "and even of you one is a devil." ⁷¹ He alluded to Judas, the son of Simon the Iscariot. For he it was who, though one of the Twelve, was afterwards to betray Him.

⁸ For as for our troubles which came upon us in the province of Asia, we would have you know, brethren, that we were exceedingly weighed down, and felt overwhelmed, so that we renounced all hope even of life. ⁹ Nay, we had, as we still have, the sentence of death within our own selves, in order that our confidence may repose, not on ourselves, but on God who raised the dead to life.

⁴⁷ "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of Life. ⁴⁹ Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died. ⁵⁰ Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.

⁹ But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another; ¹⁰ and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. And we exhort you to do so more and more, ¹¹ and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do: ¹² so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not be a burden to any one.

⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.