Gen 18:28, Lam 4:9, 1Cor 7:2 | ESV | STEP | Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking . Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five ? And he said , I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there .

Genesis 18:28

28 Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Lamentations 4:9

9 Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.

1 Corinthians 7:2

2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.