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 in,

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

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

No, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head."

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

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.

If I give all I have to the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

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

I know how to be in need, and I also know how to have plenty; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and want.

And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.

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

And he said to her, "Let the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

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

Jesus said, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."

When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you?

longing to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

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

Now Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have been with me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."

To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and we are poorly clothed, and roughly treated, and homeless;

Then his disciples said to him, "Where could we get enough bread in the wilderness to feed such a great crowd?"

If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the people.

Woe to you who are full now, for you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

"Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"