Bible verses about "dependence" | MNT

²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

⁵⁰ "This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die. ⁵¹ "I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world." ⁵² Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ "I tell you solemnly," 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 feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, 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 feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him. ⁵⁷ "Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me. ⁵⁸ "This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever." ⁵⁹ He spoke these words while in the synagogue, while he was teaching in Capernaum. ⁶⁰ So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?" ⁶¹ Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them. ⁶² "Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before? ⁶³ "The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life. ⁶⁴ "Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him. ⁶⁵ So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father." ⁶⁶ Therefore many of his disciples drew back and no longer companied with him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus appealed to the Twelve. "You also do not wish to leave me, do you?" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered. "To whom shall we go Master? You have words of eternal life; ⁶⁹ "and we have learned to believe and we know that you are the holy one of God." ⁷⁰ In reply Jesus said to them. "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And yet even of you one is an enemy." ⁷¹ Now Jesus was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him, although he was one of the Twelve.

⁸ Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself. ⁹ Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

⁴⁷ "I tell you solemnly that he who believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸ "I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died. ⁵⁰ "This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die.

⁹ It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. ¹⁰ As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more. ¹¹ Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you). ¹² So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

⁵ "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.