25 Bible Verses about Feeding The Poor

for I hungered, and ye gave Me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took Me in;

for I hungered, and ye did not give Me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave Me no drink;

naked, and ye clothed Me; I was sick, and ye looked after Me; I was in prison, and ye came to Me.'

But, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for, in doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head.

but, when you make a feast, call the poor, maimed, lame, blind;

and one of you say to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit?

If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.

And, if I bestow in morsels all my goods; and, if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, I am profited nothing.

"Happy, ye who are hungering now; because ye will be filled. "Happy, ye who are weeping now; because ye shall laugh.

I both know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound: in everything, and in all things, I have learned both to be well fed, and to be hungry, both to abound, and to be in want.

Jesus said to them, "I am the Bread of Life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes on Me shall never thirst.

"Then will they also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see Thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to Thee?'

And He said to her, "Suffer the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast it to the little dogs."

The hungry He filled with good things, and the rich He sent away empty.

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

And when did we see Thee a stranger, and took Thee in; or naked, and clothed Thee?

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs falling from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

"Then will the righteous answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see Thee hungering, and fed Thee? or thirsting, and gave Thee drink?

And Jesus, having called His disciples near, 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 haply they faint in the way."

Even until this present hour, we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

And His disciples say to Him, "Whence should we, in a wilderness, have so many loaves as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

If a brother or a sister be naked, and in want of daily food,

And, taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up into Heaven, He blessed them, and broke, and kept giving to the disciples to set before the multitude.

"Woe to you who are filled now; because ye shall hunger! "Woe to you who are laughing now; because ye shall mourn and weep!

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