'Need' in the Bible

But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.

Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.

Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?

And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

And they said, The Lord hath need of him.

And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.

For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

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

And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.