'Need' in the Bible

Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.

If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;