100 Bible Verses About Provision
Bible verses about Provision
Understanding God's provision through scripture is a journey into the heart of His unwavering love and care. These verses offer more than just comfort; they reveal a foundational truth about our relationship with the Divine. By exploring these passages, we discover that provision isn't merely about material needs, but encompasses spiritual nourishment, emotional strength, and unwavering guidance. It's an invitation to trust in a power greater than ourselves, to release anxieties, and to embrace the abundance that flows from a life lived in faith. Meditate on these words, let them resonate within you, and experience the transformative power of God's promise to provide for all who seek Him.
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Deuteronomy 15:13 (KJV)
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
God's Provision: Bible Verses on Sustaining Faith
And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth–lehem, which is by the gate!
And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the Lord.
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.
He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
And they went from Hor–hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.
O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the Lord; gold, and silver, and brass,
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.
If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the Lord hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
In essence, the Bible verses highlighted illuminate God's unwavering commitment to provision. From the Old Testament's manna in the desert to the New Testament's promise of daily bread, scripture consistently reveals a God who anticipates and meets the needs of His people. These verses encourage us to cast aside anxieties, trusting in a divine provider who knows our necessities even before we ask. They remind us that provision extends beyond material wealth to encompass spiritual, emotional, and relational fulfillment. As you reflect on these passages, consider where you may be clinging to control and resisting God's provision in your life. Embrace the invitation to surrender your worries, cultivate a spirit of gratitude, and actively seek opportunities to extend God's provision to others. By doing so, we not only experience His faithfulness but also become conduits of His blessing in a world longing for hope and sustenance.