Bible Verses About Human Solutions to Problems

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.