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19 Bible Verses About Needing God

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  • Acts 17:25 says God “is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything,” and gives everyone “life and breath and everything else.”
  • Psalm 42 and Psalm 63 describe needing God as thirst, and Isaiah 55 and John 6 answer that thirst with an offer of water and bread.
  • In John 15:5 Jesus tells his disciples, “apart from me you can do nothing,” using the picture of branches that cannot bear fruit away from the vine.
  • Paul’s request to lose “a thorn in my flesh” was refused with “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
  • Philippians 4:13 comes from a passage about being content in hunger and in plenty, and the strength it names is strength to be content in either state.

The Bible says every person depends on God for life and breath. Paul told the council in Athens that God “is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything,” and that “in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:25, 28). Scripture describes that need as a thirst for God himself (Psalm 42:1-2, Psalm 63:1), the admission of poverty and weakness (Matthew 5:3, Romans 7:18, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10), strength given to the tired (Isaiah 40:29-31),…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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