27 Bible Verses about Few People

Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way to life. Only a few put forth the effort. Yes, only a few people enter the narrow gate.

Someone asked him, Will only a few people be saved? Jesus answered them:

You have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled (defiled) their garments. They will walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

They were disobedient while the ark was being built. Yet God waited patiently in the days of Noah. But few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

He laid his hands upon a few sick and healed them. Otherwise he did no mighty work there.

A curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are found guilty. Therefore, those living on the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Jesus said to his disciples: The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.

And after the alliance made with him he will work deceitfully. He will come up, and will become strong, with a small nation of people.

In the multitude of people is the king's honor, but the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

Give more land to larger tribes and less land to smaller ones. Use the totals from the census in giving land to each tribe.

Divide the land among your families by drawing lots. Give more land to larger families and less land to smaller ones. The land must be given to each family by drawing lots. Divide it among your ancestors' tribes.

The cities you give the Levites from the property of the other Israelites must be given based on the amount of land each tribe owns. Take more cities from larger tribes and fewer from smaller tribes.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have brought trouble on me by making me loathsome to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Per'izzites. My numbers are few. If they gather themselves against me and attack my household I will be destroyed.

And the children of Israel assembled, and food was made ready and they went against them. The children of Israel camped like two little flocks of goats before them. All the country was full of the Syrians.

Jehovah set his heart on you. He chose you, even though you did not outnumber all the other people. You were the smallest of all nations.

Answer before Jehovah your God: 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and traveled there. They were few in number but he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

They were a few men in number, very few, and strangers in it.

There was a little city with a small population. A great king moved against it. He built great bulwarks against it and attacked it.

A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat.

Jehovah will scatter you among the nations. You will become few in number among the heathen, where Jehovah will lead you.

You were at one time as numerous as the stars in the sky. But only a few of you will be left. This is because you did not obey Jehovah your God.

The town was large and spacious. But the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been built.

They said to me: Please do what we ask you! Pray to Jehovah our God for us. Pray for all of us who have survived. Once there were many of us. Now there are only a few of us left, as you can see.

I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am Jehovah.

Jonathan said to the young man: Let us cross over to the camp of those heathen Philistines. Maybe Jehovah will help us. If he does, nothing can keep him from giving us the victory no matter how few of us there are.

But a few of you will escape death and return from Egypt to Judah. Then the survivors will know whose words have come true, mine or theirs.

The survivors of the bowmen, the warriors of Kedar, will be few. Jehovah, the God of Israel, has spoken!