25 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: 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 nothing to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink:

was naked, and ye clothed me: was sick, and ye visited me: was in prison, and ye came unto me.

But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink: for doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head.

But when you may make a feast, invite the poor, maimed, lame, blind:

and one of you may say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye fed; and give them not the necessaries of the body; what profit is it?

If one is hungry let him eat at home; in order that you may not come together unto condemnation. But I will set in order the remaining things when I may come.

And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.

Blessed are ye who hunger now: because ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye who weep now: because ye shall laugh.

I indeed know how to be poor, and I know how to abound: in every thing and in all things I learned both to flourish and to be poor, both to abound and to be destitute.

Then Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; the one coming unto me can never hunger, and the one believing on me shall never thirst.

Then will they also respond, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and ministered not unto thee?

And He said to her, Permit the children first to be fed: for It is not good to take the children's bread and cast it to little dogs.

He filled the poor with good things, and sent away the rich empty.

And Jesus said to them, They have no need to go away; you give them to eat.

And when saw we thee then a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

and desiring to be fed by the crumbs falling from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming continued to lick his sores.

Then the righteous will respond to Him, saying; Lord, when saw we thee then hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

And Jesus calling His disciples to Him, said, I sympathize with the multitude, because already three days abide unto me, and they have nothing which they may eat; I do not wish to send them away fasting, lest they may faint on the road.

until this hour we both hunger and thirst, and suffer for insufficient clothing, and are buffeted; and we tramp,

And His disciples say to Him, Whence is there to us so much bread in the wilderness, as to feed so great a multitude?

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

And taking the five loaves and two fishes, looking up to heaven, He blessed them; and He broke, and gave to the disciples to dispense to the multitude.

Woe unto you who are full! because you shall hunger. Woe unto you who are now laughing because you shall weep and mourn.

Why was not this myrrh sold for three hundred denaria, and given to the poor?