21 Bible Verses about Seeking Food

And if you say, 'What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?'

They cry to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom.

And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.

And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poorgo out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

They wander about for food and growl if they do not get their fill.

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. "Look, O LORD, and see, for I am despised."

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

"I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

For there were those who said, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive."

therefore behold, I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

And the disciples said to him, "Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd?"

Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, "Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place."

who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.