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World Hunger Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 206 helpful votes For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 99 helpful votes If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.Matthew 25:35 ESV / 94 helpful votes For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,James 2:15-16 ESV / 70 helpful votes If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 64 helpful votes They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,Romans 12:20 ESV / 61 helpful votes To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”Revelation 7:16 ESV / 45 helpful votes They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.Matthew 7:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.Matthew 5:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.Luke 1:53 ESV / 32 helpful votes He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.John 6:35 ESV / 29 helpful votes Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,Revelation 7:14-17 ESV / 23 helpful votes I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 23 helpful votes “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, …James 2:15-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.John 3:16-17 ESV / 14 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 14 helpful votes If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.Matthew 4:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man
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