25 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave- me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me to your houses;

For I was hungry, and you gave me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.

If, therefore, your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head.

But when you make a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind;

and any of you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, and yet give them not the things that are needful for the body, what does this profit them?

and if any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that you come not together for condemnation. But other things I will set in order when I come.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.

I know what it is to be in want, and what it is to have abundance. Everywhere and in all things, I have been fully instructed in being full and in being hungry, in having abundance and in being in want.

Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger; he that believes on me shall never thirst.

Then they also will answer, and say: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee?

But Jesus said to her: Let the children be satisfied first; for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs.

He has filled the hungry with good things, but the rich he has sent empty away.

But Jesus said to them: They need not go away; do you give them food.

When did we see thee a stranger, and take thee to our home? or naked, and clothe thee?

and he would gladly have been fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Then will the righteous answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and feed thee? or thirsty, and give thee drink?

Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said: I have compassion on the multitude, because they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. And I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint on the road.

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,

And his disciples said to him: Whence should we have in the desert as many loaves as would satisfy so great a multitude?

If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

And he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and broke, and gave them to the disciples, to set before the multitude.

Alas for you that are full! for you shall be hungry. Alas for you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?