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;

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, give him food; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for doing this you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

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

and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit?

If any one is hungry let him eat at home, that you come not together for judgment. The other things I will arrange when I come.

And if I deal out all my property to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I shall not be profited.

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

I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to abound; in every thing and in all conditions I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer want.

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

Then shall they also answer and say, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not serve you?

And he said to her, Suffer the children first to be filled; it is not right to take the children's bread, and cast it to the little dogs.

he has filled the hungry with goods, and sent the rich away empty.

But Jesus said to them, They need not go away; give them food to eat.

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

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table; but the dogs also came and licked his ulcers.

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

And Jesus calling his disciples, said, I pity the multitude, for it is now three days that they have continued with me, and they have nothing to eat; I will not dismiss them fasting lest they faint by the way.

Even to this hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled,

But his disciples said to him, Whence shall we obtain so much bread in the wilderness as to fill so great a multitude?

And if a brother or sister is naked, or destitute of daily food,

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

Woe to you full! for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii [$42], and given to the poor?