12 Bible Verses about Little Food
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For you had little before I came and it has increased and multiplied abundantly, and the Lord has favored you with blessings wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household?”
The Israelites did so, and some gathered much [of it] and some [only a] little.
You have planted much, but you harvest little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you do not have enough to be intoxicated; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns wages earns them just to put them in a bag with holes in it [because God has withheld His blessing].”
When they measured it with an omer, he who had gathered a large amount had no excess, and he who had gathered little had no lack; every man gathered according to his need (family size).
as it is written [in Scripture], “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not lack.”
You look for much [harvest], but it comes to little; and even when you bring that home, I blow it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house, which lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house [eager to enjoy it].
Better is a little with the [reverent, worshipful] fear of the Lord
Than great treasure and trouble with it.
Better is a dry morsel [of food served] with quietness and peace
Than a house full of feasting [served] with strife and contention.
Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii (200 days’ wages) worth of bread is not enough for each one to receive even a little.”
“There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many people?”
Bible Theasaurus
- Little (488 instances)