31 Bible Verses about Need

Be generous to these poor people. Freely lend them as much as they need. Never be hardhearted and stingy with them.

At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food.

I need to be baptized by you, John said. Why are you coming to me?

However one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the proper way and it shall not be taken away from her.

Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all men, as every man had need.

The city did not need the sun or the moon to shine on it. For the glory of God and of the Lamb was its light.

He spent everything! When a famine spread over that country he was left with nothing.

This service not only takes care of the needs of the holy ones, but also abounds with many expressions of thanksgiving to God.

I am not saying this because I am in need; for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am. I know how to be poor. I also know how to live with abundance. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to have abundance and to suffer need.

The people of Ephraim say: We are rich. We have made a fortune. With all this wealth, no one will find us guilty of any sin.

The sons of Israel did this. Some gathered much and some little. They measured it. Those who gathered much did not have too much. Some who gathered less did not have too little. Each had gathered just what he needed. Moses said: No one is to keep any of it for tomorrow.read more.
Some of them did not listen to Moses and saved part of it. The next morning it was full of worms and smelled rotten. Moses was angry with them.

I also gave you cleanness of teeth (kept food from your teeth) in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

And whoever gives a drink of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

Late in the day his disciples approached him. They said: The day is almost over and we are in a secluded place. Send them away that they may go to the country and villages nearby and buy themselves something to eat. He replied: You give them food to eat. They asked: Should we buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread to feed them?read more.
He said Find out how many loaves you have? When they knew they said Five loaves and two fishes. He commanded them to sit down by groups upon the green grass. They sat down in groups of hundreds, and fifties. Then he looked up to heaven and blessed the food. He took the five loaves and the two fishes, and broke the loaves into pieces and gave them to his disciples. He also divided the two fishes. He gave the food to his disciples to serve to the people. They all ate and were filled. They collected twelve baskets full of broken pieces of bread and fishes.

There was a woman having an issue of blood twelve years. She spent all her money on physicians, and could not be healed by any. She came behind him and touched the border of his garment. Immediately the issue of blood stopped. Jesus said: Who touched me? Peter and the others with him said: Master, the people press in from all sides.read more.
Jesus said: Someone did touch me. I perceived that power went from me. When the woman knew she was discovered she trembled, fell down before him and declared in the presence of all the people why she touched him, and how she was healed immediately. He said to her: Daughter, your faith has made you whole; go in peace.

While we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Perhaps for the good man some one would even dare to die. But God demonstrates (commends) his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Honor widows that are truly widows. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in supplications and prayers day and night.read more.
But she that gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives. Command these things that they may be without reproach. If any do not provide for his own, and specially his own household, he denies the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

We should be content with having food and covering.