105 Verses About Lack from 45 Books

1_Corinthians 7:5

Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1_Corinthians 16:17

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.

1_Kings 4:27

Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

1_Kings 11:22

Then Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?" He answered, "Nothing, however only let me depart."

1_Kings 18:45

It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

1_Samuel 21:15

Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"

1_Samuel 30:19

There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.



1_Thessalonians 3:10

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

2_Chronicles 15:7

But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."

2_Corinthians 8:14

but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

2_Corinthians 8:15

As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."

2_Corinthians 9:12

For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

2_Peter 1:9

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

2_Peter 2:17

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.



2_Samuel 2:30

Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

2_Samuel 3:29

Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread."

2_Samuel 17:22

Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

Acts 4:34

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

Additions_to_Esther 3:6

There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

Amos 4:6

"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;



Deuteronomy 2:7

For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 7:10

and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.

Deuteronomy 8:9

a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

Deuteronomy 23:21

When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil.



Epistle_of_Jeremiah 6:21

Their faces are blacked by the smoke which comes out of the temple.

Esther 1:6

There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

Exodus 16:18

When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

Ezra 4:22

Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

Genesis 18:28

What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

Genesis 30:32

I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

Genesis 30:33

So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."



Genesis 30:35

That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

Genesis 30:40

Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Isaiah 34:16

Search in the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.

Isaiah 44:12

The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."

Isaiah 59:15

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

James 1:4

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

James 2:15

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

Jeremiah 4:28

For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it."

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Jeremiah 23:4

I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says the LORD.

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

Job 4:11

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

Job 6:16

Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

Job 30:3

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

Job 30:30

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Job 38:41

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Judges 21:3

They said, "the LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?"

Judith 8:9

Now she heard the evil words of the people against the governor and that they fainted for lack of water; for Judith had heard all the words that Uzziah had spoken to them and that he had sworn to deliver the city to the Assyrians after five days.

Lamentations 4:8

Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Leviticus 2:13

Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Leviticus 11:13

"'These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,

Leviticus 11:14

and the red kite, any kind of black kite,

Leviticus 13:31

If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate him the person infected with itching seven days.

Leviticus 13:37

But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.

Leviticus 22:23

Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

Luke 18:22

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

Luke 22:35

He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."

Mark 10:21

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."

Matthew 5:36

Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.

Matthew 19:20

The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?"

Micah 3:6

"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

Nehemiah 9:21

"Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell.

Numbers 31:49

and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

Philippians 2:30

because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

Philippians 4:10

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

Philippians 4:11

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Proverbs 5:23

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Proverbs 10:19

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Proverbs 11:22

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Proverbs 12:9

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

Proverbs 14:28

In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

Proverbs 28:16

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

Proverbs 28:27

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

Proverbs 31:11

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

Psalms 23:1

the LORD is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Psalms 34:9

Oh fear the LORD, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

Psalms 34:10

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Psalms 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

Revelation 6:5

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.

Revelation 6:12

I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

Romans 3:3

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

Song_of_Solomon 5:11

His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

Titus 1:5

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

Titus 3:13

Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.

Zechariah 6:2

In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;

Zechariah 6:6

The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward the south country."

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,





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