Bible Verses about “needs”
The Bible contains 19 verses about needs across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
“‹But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.›”
“¶ ‹Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?›”
“‹(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.›”
“¶ A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.”
“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‹It is more blessed to give than to receive.›”
“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
“Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
“Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”
“Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].”
“I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
“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.”
“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.”
“And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:”
“The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].”
“O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them that fear him.”
“The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.”
“But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.”