Bible verses about "needs" | Haweis

⁷ Let every man, as he hath purposed in heart, give, not with reluctance or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound towards you; that in every case having always all sufficiency, ye may abound unto every good work:

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more; but rather labour hard, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that is in want.

⁸ For by grace ye are saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: ⁹ not by works, lest any man should boast;

⁹ as it is written, "He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness abideth for ever." ¹⁰ Now he that supplieth seed to the sower, shall also supply bread for food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ being in every thing enriched unto all liberality, which [causeth] by us thanksgiving to God.

²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, To pay diligent attention to the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to preserve himself spotless from the world.

¹¹ Not that I mention this with a view to my indigence: for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am, to be content. ¹² I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in every state and in all situations I am instructed either to be full or famishing, either to enjoy abundance, or to suffer want:

³⁵ In all things I have set you the example, that so labouring hard ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

³² (for after all these things the heathen seek:) and your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of them all. ³³ But seek ye, in the first place, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be given you over.

²⁵ For this cause I tell you, Be not anxious about your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life of more value than meat, and the body than raiment?

¹⁹ But my God will fully supply all your want, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Jesus.