46 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

For I was a hungered, and ye gave me meat. I thirsted, and ye gave me drink. I was harborless, and ye lodged me. I was naked and ye clothed me.

For I was a hungered, and ye gave me no meat. I thirsted, and ye gave me no drink. I was harborless, and ye lodged me not.

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.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,

Yea, and to break the bread to the hungry; and to bring the poor that are harborless unto house; and when thou seest a naked, that thou clothe him and that thou shouldest withdraw thyself from helping thine own flesh?

and one of you say unto them, "Depart in peace, God send you warmness and food," notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body: what helpeth it them?

If any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.

A loving eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread unto the poor.

To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

For he satisfieth the greedy soul, and filleth the hungry soul with good.

And though I bestowed all my goods to feed the poor, and though I gave my body even that I burned, and yet had no love, it profiteth me nothing.

For the land shall never be without poor. Wherefore I command thee, saying, 'Open thine hand unto thy brother that is needy and poor in thy land.'

Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be satisfied. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

"'When ye reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean riddance of thy field, neither shalt thou make any after gathering of thy harvest: but shalt leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I am the LORD your God.'"

Yea If thou layest away thy burdens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceasest from blasphemous talking; if thou hast compassion upon the hungry, and refreshest the troubled soul: Then shall thy light spring out in the darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noon day.

"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?

I can both cast down myself, I can also exceed. Everywhere, and in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungry: to have plenty, and to suffer need.

And Jesus said unto them, "I am that bread of life. He that cometh to me, shall not hunger: and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; who feedeth the hungry. The LORD looseth men out of prison;

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink;

Then shall they also answer him, saying, 'Master, when saw we thee a hungered, or athirst, or harborless, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and have not ministered unto thee?'

There is plenteousness of food in the fields of the poor; and shall be increased out of measure.

But the poor shall feed of the best things, and the simple shall dwell in safety. Thy roots will I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay thy remnant.

And Jesus said unto her, "Let the children first be fed. For it is not meet, to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto whelps."

He hath filled the hungry with good things: And sendeth away the rich empty.

He humbled thee and made thee hunger and fed thee with Manna, which neither thou nor thy father knew of, to make thee know that a man must not live by bread only: but by all that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD must a man live.

Men do not utterly despise a thief, that stealeth to satisfy his soul, when he is hungry:

But Jesus said unto them, "They have no need to go away: Give ye them to eat."

When saw we thee harborless, and lodged thee? Or naked and clothed thee?

Eat not thou with the envious, and desire not his meat,

desiring to be refreshed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's board. Nevertheless, the dogs came, and licked his sores.

Then shall the righteous answer him saying, 'Master, when saw we thee a hungered, and fed thee? Or athirst, and gave thee drink?

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the people, because they have continued with me now three days, and have nought to eat: and I will not let them depart fasting lest they perish in the way."

Even unto this day we hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted with fists, and have no certain dwelling place,

He shall be favorable to the simple and poor; he shall preserve the souls of such as be in adversity.

Yea when he helped the oppressed and poor to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came this? But only because he had me before his eyes, sayeth the LORD.

And his disciples said unto him, "Whence should we get so much bread in the wilderness as should suffice so great a multitude?"

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

The LORD will not let the soul of the righteous suffer hunger; but he putteth the ungodly from his desire.

And he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looked up to heaven, and blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples, to set before the people.

Woe be to you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Woe be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wail, and weep.

Remove from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches, only grant me a necessary living.

He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth unto the LORD; and look, what he layeth out, it shall be paid him again.

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

Delight not thou in sleep, lest thou come to poverty; but open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread enough.