Bible verses about "dependence" | Williams

²¹ for no prophecy has ever yet originated in man's will, but men who were led by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

⁵⁰ But here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat it and never die. ⁵¹ I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh." ⁵² But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?" ⁵³ Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood already possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood continues to live in union with me and I in union with him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever keeps on eating me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that comes down out of heaven; not as your forefathers ate the manna, and yet died. Whoever continues to eat this bread will live forever." ⁵⁹ He said this as He taught in the synagogue at Capernaum. ⁶⁰ So many of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This teaching is hard to take in. Who can listen to it?" ⁶¹ But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you? ⁶² Suppose you were to see the Son of Man going back where He was before? ⁶³ The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him. ⁶⁵ So He continued, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless it is granted to him by my Father." ⁶⁶ As a result of this many of His disciples turned their backs on Him and stopped accompanying Him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the Twelve, "You too do not want to go back, do you?" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered Him, "To whom can we go, Lord? You have the message that gives eternal life, ⁶⁹ and we have come to believe, yes more, we know by experience, that you are the Holy One of God." ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select you as the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil." ⁷¹ He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son, for he was going to betray Him, although he was one of the Twelve.

⁸ For I do not want you to be uninformed about the sorrow that I suffered in Asia, because I was so crushed beyond any power to endure that I was in dire despair of life itself. ⁹ Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.

⁴⁷ I most solemnly say to you, whoever believes in me possesses eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread that gives life. ⁴⁹ Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna, and yet they died. ⁵⁰ But here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat it and never die.

⁹ Now as to brotherly love, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another, ¹⁰ as you are practicing it toward all the brothers all over Macedonia. We beg you, brothers, to continue to live better and better; ¹¹ also keep up your ambition to live quietly, to practice attending to your own business and to work with your own hands, as we directed you, ¹² so that you may live influentially with the outsiders, and not be dependent on anybody.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.