25 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

For I was hungry, and ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

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

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

Therefore, "if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink. For in so doing thou wilt heap coals of fire on his head."

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind;

and one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and be filled, notwithstanding ye give them not the things needful for the body, what doth it profit?

If any one hunger, let him eat at home; that ye may not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

Blessed are ye that hunger now; for ye will be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now; for ye will laugh.

I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound; in every thing and in all things I have been well taught, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want;

Jesus therefore said to them, I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me will not hunger; and he that believeth in me will never thirst.

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

And he said to her, Let the children be filled first; for it is not well to take the childrens bread and throw it to the little dogs.

The hungry he hath filled with good things, and the rich he hath sent away empty.

But he said to them, They need not go away; do ye give them food.

and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

and longing to be fed with what fell from the rich mans table. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Then will the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

And Jesus having called his disciples to him, said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have remained 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 very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace,

And the disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

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

Then 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.

Woe to you that are full now! for ye will hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for ye will mourn and weep.

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