25 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye received me hospitably:

for I was hungry, and ye gave me nothing to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me nothing to drink:

naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye took care of me: I was in prison, and ye came to me.

If therefore thine enemy hunger, give him food; if he thirst, give him drink: for so doing, thou shalt heap up coals of fire on his head.

But when thou makest an entertainment, invite the poor, the maimed, the halt, the blind:

and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail?

And if any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that ye meet not together for condemnation. And the other matters I will regulate when I come.

And if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it.

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

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in every state and in all situations I am instructed either to be full or famishing, either to enjoy abundance, or to suffer want:

Then said Jesus 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 more.

Then shall 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 unto thee?

And Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be fed, for it is not proper to take the children's bread, and throw it to the dogs.

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

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

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

and importunately desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: yea even the dogs came and licked his ulcers.

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

Then Jesus calling his disciples, said, I have compassion on the multitude, for they have now continued with me three days, and have not any thing to eat: and send them away fasting I will not, lest they faint on the road.

For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode;

And his disciples said unto him, Whence can we in the wilderness have loaves enough to satisfy the cravings of so great a multitude?

Now if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

And taking the five loaves, and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.

Wo unto you who are full! for ye shall hunger. Wo unto you who laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Wherefore was not this aromatic ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?