'Need' in the Bible

And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the people that are with me. And he said, What need? Let me find favour in the eyes of my lord.

Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

save when there shall be no one in need among you; for Jehovah will greatly bless thee in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it,

If there be amongst you a poor man, any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates, in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need;

but thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto him, and shalt certainly lend him on pledge what is sufficient for his need, in that which he lacketh.

And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa, and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

And that which they have need of, both young bullocks and rams and lambs, for the burnt-offerings to the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.

Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter.

but John urgently forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee; and comest thou to me?

Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.

But Jesus hearing it, said, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give ye them to eat.

And if any one say anything to you, ye shall say, The Lord has need of them, and straightway he will send them.

Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has blasphemed: what need have we any more of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy.

And Jesus having heard it says to them, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those who are ill. I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners.

And he said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and those with him,

And if any one say to you, Why do ye this? say, The Lord has need of it; and straightway he sends it hither.

And the high priest, having rent his clothes, says, What need have we any more of witnesses?

And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.

But the crowds knowing it followed him; and he received them and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those that had need of healing.

but there is need of one, and Mary has chosen the good part, the which shall not be taken from her.

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, more than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose it? thus shall ye say to him, Because the Lord has need of it.

And they said, Because the Lord has need of it.

for all these out of their abundance have cast into the gifts of God; but she out of her need has cast in all the living which she had.

And they said, What need have we any more of witness, for we have heard ourselves out of his mouth?

and that he had not need that any should testify of man, for himself knew what was in man.

for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.

Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast not need that any one should demand of thee. By this we believe that thou art come from God.

and sold their possessions and substance, and distributed them to all, according as any one might have need.

and laid it at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to each according as any one might have need.

that ye may receive her in the Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for she also has been a helper of many, and of myself.

But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.

The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.

but our comely parts have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to the part that lacked;

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory from you?

Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

for also in Thessalonica once and even twice ye sent to me for my need.

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

for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that ye should be written to,

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all in having offered up himself.

For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

and yourselves, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.

But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should shine for it; for the glory of God has enlightened it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb.

And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and light of the sun; for the Lord God shall shine upon them, and they shall reign to the ages of ages.