46 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 hungereth, feed him; if he thirsteth, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

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

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou shouldst bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou shouldst cover him; and that thou shouldst not hide thyself from thy own flesh?

And one of you sayeth to them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

And if any man hungereth, let him eat at home; that ye come not together to condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

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

For the poor shall never cease from the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand wide to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

And if thou shalt draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:

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

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me, shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me, shall never thirst.

Who executeth judgment for the oppressed: who giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

If thy enemy shall hunger, give him bread to eat; and if he shall thirst, give him water to drink:

Then will they also answer him, 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?

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be satisfied: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs.

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

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

Men do not despise a thief, if he stealeth to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

But Jesus said to them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

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

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties:

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover, 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?

Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to satisfy so great a multitude?

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

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

Then he took the five loaves, and the 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 that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth to the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

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

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.