46 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

For I hungered, and ye gave me to eat, I thirsted, and ye gave me drink, a stranger, was I, and ye took me home,

For I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat, and I was thirsty, and ye gave me not to drink,

Naked, and ye clothed me, sick, and ye visited me, in prison, was I, and ye came unto me.

But - if thine enemy hunger, be feeding him, if he thirst, be giving him drink; for, this doing, coals of fire, shalt thou heap upon his head.

But, whensoever, an entertainment, thou mayest be making, invite the destitute, the tried, the lame, the blind;

Is it not to break unto the hungry, thy bread, And the thrust-out oppressed, that thou bring into a home, - When thou seest one naked, that thou cover him, And from thine own flesh, shalt not hide thyself?

And one from among you should say unto them - Withdraw in peace, be getting warmed and fed, but should not give them the things needful for the body, What the profit?

If anyone be hungry, at home, let him eat, lest, unto judgment, ye be coming together. And, the remaining things, whensoever I come, I will set in order.

A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed, - because he hath given of his bread to the poor.

No water - to the weary, hast thou given to drink, and, from the hungry, thou hast withheld broad:

For he hath satisfied the longing soul, and, the famished soul, hath he filled with good.

And, though I morsel out all my goods, - and though I deliver up my body, that I may boast, and have not, love, I am profited, nothing.

For the needy will not cease out of the midst of the land - for this cause, am I commanding thee, saying, Thou shalt open, thy hand unto thy brother to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.

Happy, ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Happy, ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

And, when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly clear the border of thy field when thou reapest, and, the gleanings of thy field, shalt thou not glean, - for the poor and for the sojourner, shalt thou leave them. I - Yahweh, am your God.

And shalt let thine own soul a go out to the hungry, And the soul of the oppressed, thou shalt satisfy, Then shall break forth in darkness thy light, And thy thick darkness, become as the splendour of noon;

If I withheld - from pleasure - the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;

I know what it is even to be kept low, and I know what it is to have more than enough, - in every way, and in all things, have I been let into the secret - both to be well fed, and to be hungering, both to have more than enough, and to be coming short:

Jesus said unto them - I, am the bread of life: he that cometh unto me, in nowise shall hunger, and, he that believeth on me, in nowise shall thirst, any more.

Who executeth justice for the oppressed, who giveth food to the famishing, Yahweh, who liberateth prisoners;

If he that hateth thee hunger, give him bread to eat, and, if he be thirsty, give him water to drink;

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 ministered not unto thee?

Much food, is in the fallow ground of the poor, but there is that is swept away, for want of justice.

Then shall feed the firstborn of the poor, And the needy, in confidence lie down, - And I will kill with famine thy root, And thy residue, shall be slain.

And he was saying to her - Suffer, the children, first, to be fed; for it is not seemly to take the bread of the children, and, unto the little dogs, to cast it;

The hungry, hath he filled with good things, and, the wealthy, hath he sent empty away;

So he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna which thou hadst not known, neither had thy fathers' known, - that he might lead thee to consider that not on bread alone, shall the son of earth live, but on whatsoever cometh from the bidding of Yahweh, shall the son of earth live.

Men despise not a thief, when he stealeth, to satisfy his appetite, because he is famished;

But, Jesus, said unto them, No need, have they to go away, - give, ye, them to eat.

And, when, saw we thee - a stranger, and took thee home, or naked, and clothed thee?

Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave thou his dainties;

and to long to be fed from the crumbs that fell from the table of the rich man: nay! even, the dogs, used to come and lick his sores.

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

But, Jesus, calling near his disciples, said - My compassions are moved towards the multitude, because even now, three days, abide they with me, and they have nothing to eat, - and, to dismiss them fasting, I am not willing, lest by any means they faint in the way.

Until the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and are wanderers,

He Pitieth the weak and the needy, And, the lives of the needy, he Saveth:

Did he not plead the cause of the oppressed and the needy, And, then, it was well? Was not, that, to know, me? Demandeth Yahweh.

And his disciples say unto him - Whence, to us, in a wilderness, loaves in such numbers as to fill a multitude, so great?

If, a brother or sister, should be naked, and coming short of the daily food,

Yahweh, suffereth not to famish, the soul of the righteous, but, the desire of the lawless, he thrusteth away.

And, taking the five loaves, and the two fishes, looking up into heaven, he blessed them, and brake them up, and went on giving to the disciples, to set before the multitude;

Alas! for you, ye who are filled full now, for ye shall hunger. Alas! ye that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:

A lender to Yahweh, is one who sheweth favour to the poor, and, his good deed, He will pay him back.

Why was, this perfume, not sold for three hundred denaries, and given unto the destitute?

Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread.