21 Bible Verses about Seeking Food
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And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, How shall we be clothed?
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?
And seek you not what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, neither be of anxious mind.
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat; neither for the body, what you shall put on.
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising early for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their treasures for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I have become despised.
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them.
We got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders died in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.
And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not anything he had, except the food which he did eat. And Joseph was a handsome person, and well favored.
For there were those that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore let us get grain for them, that we may eat, and live.
Behold, therefore I will deliver you to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you: they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
And his disciples said unto him, From where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get food: for we are here in a desert place.
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.