46 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 brought me in:

For I was hungry, and ye gave me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;

Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me.

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

But when thou makest an entertainment, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh.

And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit?

And if any hunger, let him eat in the house; lest ye come together for judgment. And the rest when I come I will regulate.

The good eye it shall be blessed, for he gave from his bread to the poor.

Thou wilt not give to the weary one water to drink, and from the hungry one thou wilt withhold bread.

For he satisfied the thirsty soul, and the hungering soul he filled with good.

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

For the needy shall not cease from the midst of thy land: for this I command thee, saying, Opening, thou shalt open thy hand to thy brother, to thy afflicted and to thy needy in thy land.

Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

And in your reaping the harvest of your land, thou shalt not finish the extremity of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou shalt not glean: to the poor and to the stranger thou shalt leave them: I Jehovah your God.

And thou shalt give out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the humble soul; and thy light rising in darkness,, and thy thick darkness as the noon.

If I shall withhold from the desire of the poor, and cause the eyes of the widow to fail;

And I know how to be humble, and I know how to abound in every thing: and in all I am instructed also to be full and to hunger, and to abound and to be in want.

And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he coming to me should not hunger; and he believing in me should not thirst.

He did judgment for the oppressed; he gave bread to the hungering: Jehovah loosed those being bound.

If thine enemy hunger, give him bread to eat; and if he thirst, give him water to drink:

Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee?

Much food to the fallow ground of the poor: and in no judgment there is destroying

And the first born of the poor were fed, and the needy shall lie down confidently: and I killed thy root with famine, and thy residue he shall slay.

And Jesus said to her, Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast to little dogs.

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

And he will humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and will give thee to eat manna which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; so that he caused thee to know that upon bread only man shall not live, but upon all going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall man live.

They will not despise a thief if he shall steal to fill up his soul; for he will be hungry.

But Jesus said to them, They have no need to depart; give ye them to eat.

And when saw we thee a stranger, and brought in or naked, and put around

Thou shalt not eat the bread of an evil eye, and ye shall not long for its dainties:

And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds.

Then shall the just answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished or thirsting, and gave to drink

And Jesus having called his disciples, said, I feel compassion for the crowd, for already they remain with me three days, and they have nothing they could eat: and I will not leave them fasting, lest they be relaxed in the way.

Until this present hour we also hunger, and thirst, and we are naked, and are cuffed, and are unsteady.

He will spare for the poor and the needy, and he will save the souls of the needy.

He judged the judgment of the poor and the needy; then it was well: was this not knowing me? says Jehovah.

And his disciples say to him, Whence to us, in a lonely place, so many loaves, to satisfy such a crowd I

And if a brother or sister be naked, and be failing of daily food,

Jehovah will not cause the soul of the just one to hunger: and he will thrust away the desire of the unjust

And having taken the five loaves and two fishes, having looked up to heaven, be praised them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Woe to you having been filled for ye shall hunger. Woe to you laughing now! for ye shall grieve and weep.

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

He pitying the poor lends to Jehovah, and he will recompense to him his act.

Wherefore was not this perfumed oil sold for three hundred drachmas, and given to the poor?

Thou shalt not love sleep lest thou shalt be dispossessed: open wide thine eyes, being filled with bread.