25 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink:

For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

I was a stranger, and ye took me in; Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.

Therefore if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

But when thou makest an entertainment, invite the poor,

and want daily food, And one of you say to them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled, but give them not the things needful for the body, what doth it profit?

And if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

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

Happy are ye that hunger now; for ye shall be satisfied: happy are ye that weep now; for ye shall laugh.

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound, every where and in every thing I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to want.

He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

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

But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be satisfied; for it is not right to take the childrens bread and cast it to the dogs.

He hath filled the hungry with good things, but sent the rich empty away.

But Jesus said to them, They need not go: give ye them to eat.

When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? Or naked, and clothed thee?

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table: yea, the dogs also came and licked his sores.

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

Then Jesus calling his disciples to him said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Even to this present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain abode, And labour, working with our own hands:

And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so much bread in a wilderness, as to satisfy so great a multitude?

Can that faith save him? If a brother or a sister be naked,

Then taking 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.

Wo to you that are full; for ye shall hunger: wo to you that laugh now; for ye shall mourn and weep.

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