Bible Verses About Physical Needs

And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

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

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

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

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

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.

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 bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

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

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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:

But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

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

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

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

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.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

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

Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.