20 Bible Verses about Lack
Most Relevant Verses
[We also urge you to] make it your aim to live a quiet life, and to attend to your own business matters, and to work with your hands, as we urged you. [Note: Possibly this exhortation was directed toward the tendency of some people there to neglect ordinary responsibilities in view of an imminent return of Christ].
And no one lacked anything, for all who owned property or houses sold [some of] them and brought the money
And when I was there with you and in need, I was not a [financial] burden to anyone, for when the brothers came from Macedonia they provided me with what I lacked, so I kept myself from being a burden to you in every way and will continue to do so.
because he almost died for the work of Christ, risking his life to provide me with what you were not able to.
When Jesus heard this He said to him, " [There is] one thing you still lack. Sell all your possessions and distribute [the money] to poor people; become my follower, [then] you will have treasure in heaven."
But if any one of you lacks wisdom, he should pray to God, who gives to everyone generously and does not begrudge [the person who asks], and it will be given to him.
But, anyone who lacks these qualities is [spiritually] blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed [i.e., forgiven] of his past sins.
Topics on Lack
Enjoyment, Lack Of
2 Corinthians 1:8For we want you to know, brothers, about the trouble that we experienced in Asia. [See I Cor. 16:19]. We were under a heavy burden [which was] more than we could stand, even to the point of despairing of life.
Lack Of Discernment
Luke 12:54-56And Jesus also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, 'A rainstorm is coming up,' and sure enough, it does.
Lack Of Discrimination
1 Corinthians 2:15But the spiritual person [i.e., one who has the Holy Spirit] is able to discern all things [i.e., has the ability to make right judgments about things], and he himself [i.e., his conduct] cannot be [critically] discerned by any [unbelieving] man.
Lack Of Expectation
Matthew 24:37-41As it was during the days of Noah, so it will be when the presence of the Son of man [arrives].
Lack Of Faith
Mark 4:40And He said to His disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you not still have [any] faith?"
Lack Of Holiness
2 Timothy 3:2For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive talkers, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Lack Of Insight
Matthew 16:11How is it that you do not understand that I was not speaking to you about [physical] bread? But [rather I meant] watch out for the yeast [i.e., the influence] of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Lack Of Meaning
Matthew 15:8These people [claim to] honor me with their lips [i.e., by what they say], but their heart is far from [honoring] me.
Lack Of Rain
James 5:17Elijah was a man with a similar nature as ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain [I Kings 17:1; 18:1], and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Lack Of Rejoicing
1 Corinthians 13:6[Love] is not glad about the evil [that people do], but is glad about the truth [i.e., the good in their lives].
Lack Of Sons
Matthew 22:24"Teacher, Moses said [in Deut. 25:5] that when a man dies without having had any children, his brother must marry his widow and father children by her, who would [then] be considered his [dead] brother's.
Trust, Lack Of
Revelation 3:17For you are saying, 'I am wealthy; I have made plenty of money and do not need anything.' But you do not know that you are [spiritually] wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
