12 Bible Verses about Little Food

For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less.

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

And when it was measured, he who had taken up much had nothing over, and he who had little had enough; every man had taken what he was able to make use of.

As it says in the Writings, He who had taken up much had nothing over and he who had little had enough.

You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.

Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?