46 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

for I was hungry, and you did not give me food to eat; 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.'

Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."

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

Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you did not give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.'"

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

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

An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

But he said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

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

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

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

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

Do not eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and do not crave his delicacies:

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

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

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me?' says the LORD.

Then the disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a crowd?"

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

The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; he will reward him.

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

Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.