46 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.

I was hungry and you did not feed me. I was thirsty and you did not give me drink.

I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.'

Therefore if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.

When you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house? When you see the naked, should you cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

and one of you says to them: Go in peace, be warmed and filled; and yet you do not give them food and clothing, what good is it?

If any man is hungry let him eat at home. That way you come together without condemnation. I will give direction to care for other matters when I come.

He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed for he gives of his bread to the poor.

You have given no water to the weary to drink. You have withheld bread from the hungry.

For he satisfies the thirsty and the hungry person.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

There will always be some Israelites who are poor and needy. That is why I am commanding you to be generous with them.

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

When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.'

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom will be like midday.

If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

I know how to be poor. I also know how to live with abundance. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to have abundance and to suffer need.

Jesus replied: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger. The one who puts active faith in me will never thirst.

He executes justice for the oppressed. He gives food to the hungry. Jehovah sets the prisoners free.

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

They will also ask: 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or naked, sick or in prison and not minister to you?'

Abundant foods is in the fallow ground of the poor. There is waste because of a lack of justice.

Jehovah will be a shepherd to the poor of his people and will let them live in safety. But he will send a terrible famine on you Philistines. It will not leave any of you alive.

He said to her: Let the children be fed first. It is not proper to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

He fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty handed.

He humbled you (allowed you to suffer) with hunger and then fed you with manna. Neither you nor your fathers had seen this before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but must live on all (everything) (every word) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah.

Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

Jesus told them: They have no need to go away: you feed them.

When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and dress you?

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man nor desire his delicacies.

He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores.

The righteous will answer him: 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?

Jesus called his disciples and said: I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless.

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the needy.

He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy. Then it was well. Is that not what it means to know me? Says Jehovah.

The disciples replied: Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?

If a brother or sister is without clothes and in lack of daily food,

Jehovah will not allow the righteous to hunger. He rejects the mischief of the wicked.

He took the five loaves and the two fishes. Looking up to heaven, he blessed them and broke the bread. Then he gave them to the disciples to pass out to the crowd.

Woe to you who are full now! For you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! You will mourn and weep.

Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food necessary for me.

When you help the poor (needy) (lowly) (depressed) you lend to Jehovah. He will pay you back.

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

Do not love sleep or you will come to poverty. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread.