'Need' in the Bible

But John tried to stop him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?"

Don't be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

because it is the unbelievers who are eager for all those things. Surely your heavenly Father knows that you need all of them!

When Jesus heard that, he said, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick people do.

But Jesus told them, "They don't need to go away. You give them something to eat."

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Listen! You yourselves have just heard the blasphemy!

When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

He asked them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

Then the high priest tore his clothes. "Why do we still need witnesses?" he asked.

But Jesus answered them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick people do.

But there's only one thing you need. Mary has chosen what is better, and it is not to be taken away from her."

because it is the unbelievers who are concerned about all these things. Surely your Father knows that you need them!

Every single one of them began asking to be excused. The first told him, "I bought a field, and I need to go out and inspect it. Please excuse me.'

In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don't need to repent."

After he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray all the time and never give up.

When Jesus heard this, he told him, "You still need to do one thing. Sell everything you have and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

"Why do we need any more testimony?" they asked. "We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

Jesus told him, "Whoever has bathed is entirely clean. He doesn't need to wash himself further, except for his feet. And you men are clean, though not all of you."

At that time, you will make your requests in my name, so that I will have no need to ask the Father on your behalf,

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

They made it their practice to sell their possessions and goods and to distribute the proceeds to anyone who was in need.

I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are filled with goodness and full of all the knowledge you need to be able to instruct each other.

Welcome her in the Lord as is appropriate for saints, and provide her with anything she may need from you, for she has assisted many people, including me.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you," or the head to the feet, "I don't need you."

However, our attractive parts don't need this. But God has put the body together and has given special honor to the parts that lack it,

Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

At the present time, your surplus fills their need, so that their surplus may fill your need. In this way things are fair.

I do not need to write to you any further about the ministry to the saints.

Besides, God is able to make every blessing of yours overflow for you, so that in every situation you will always have all you need for any good work.

I beg you that when I come I will not need to be courageous by daring to oppose some people who think that we are living according to the flesh.

but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.

Let no filthy talk be heard from your mouths, but only what is good for building up people and meeting the need of the moment. This way you will administer grace to those who hear you.

Meanwhile, I thought it best to send Epaphroditus my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need back to you.

I am not saying this because I am in any need, for I have learned to be content in whatever situation I am in.

And my God will fully supply your every need according to his glorious riches in the Messiah Jesus.

From you the word of the Lord has spread out not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place where your faith in God has become known. As a result, we do not need to say anything about it.

Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.

so that you may win the respect of outsiders, and have need of nothing.

Now you do not need to have anything written to you about times and dates, brothers,

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in the Messiah Jesus.

Do all you can to send Zenas the expert in the Law and Apollos on their way, and see that they have everything they need.

So let us keep on coming boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood for on this basis the people received the Law what further need would there be to speak of appointing another kind of priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not one according to the order of Aaron?

We need such a high priest one who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

He has no need to offer sacrifices every day like high priests do, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he sacrificed himself.

If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one,

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will you can receive what he has promised.

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the full knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

The anointing you received from God abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you this. Instead, because God's anointing teaches you about everything and is true and not a lie, abide in him, as he taught you to do.

Whoever has earthly possessions and notices a brother in need and yet withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God be present in him?

You say, "I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything." Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

The city doesn't need any sun or moon to give it light, because the glory of God gave it light, and the lamb was its lamp.

There will be no more night, and they will not need any light from lamps or the sun because the Lord God will shine on them. They will rule forever and ever.