46 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

For I was hungry, and you gave me food: 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 no food: I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink:

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

Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

But when you give a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?

And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled; yet you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide unto your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corners of your field when you reap, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in the darkness, and your darkness be as the noon day:

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.

Who executes justice for the oppressed: who gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, or thirsty or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto you?

Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for lack of justice.

And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill your root with famine, and he shall slay your remnant.

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not right to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

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

And he humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; you give them to eat.

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

Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies:

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

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

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away without food, lest they faint in the way.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.

And his disciples said unto him, From where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

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

The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the desire of the wicked.

Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.

Woe unto you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food needful for me:

He that has pity upon the poor lends unto the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.