46 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor
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For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
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: every where 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 cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
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 thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee 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 fasting, 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 dwellingplace;
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath 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 thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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