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Feeding The Hungry
Matthew 25:35 ESV / 1,659 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,
Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 1,140 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.
James 2:14-18 ESV / 787 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 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. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 688 helpful votes
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
1 John 3:17-18 ESV / 656 helpful votes
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Luke 3:11 ESV / 621 helpful votes
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 618 helpful votes
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 564 helpful votes
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 483 helpful votes
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
John 6:35 ESV / 471 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.
Matthew 25:37-40 ESV / 435 helpful votes
Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Matthew 14:15-21 ESV / 354 helpful votes
Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” And he said, “Bring them here to me.” Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. …
Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 351 helpful votes
She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.
Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV / 295 helpful votes
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,
Matthew 25:34-46 ESV / 267 helpful votes
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, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? …
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 242 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Matthew 25:40 ESV / 237 helpful votes
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Romans 12:20 ESV / 200 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.”
Isaiah 58:7 ESV / 194 helpful votes
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Matthew 5:6 ESV / 188 helpful votes
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Psalm 146:7 ESV / 187 helpful votes
Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
James 1:27 ESV / 183 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 2:15 ESV / 180 helpful votes
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
Ezekiel 18:7 ESV / 179 helpful votes
Does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
Proverbs 25:21 ESV / 176 helpful votes
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 174 helpful votes
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 174 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 does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 171 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.’
Matthew 25:37 ESV / 170 helpful votes
Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 168 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.’”
Deuteronomy 24:19 ESV / 167 helpful votes
“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 166 helpful votes
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. …
Luke 1:53 ESV / 161 helpful votes
He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.
Matthew 10:42 ESV / 159 helpful votes
And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
James 2:16 ESV / 158 helpful votes
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?
Luke 9:13 ESV / 151 helpful votes
But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”
Matthew 25:36 ESV / 150 helpful votes
I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’
Isaiah 61:1-2 ESV / 148 helpful votes
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
John 6:55-59 ESV / 144 helpful votes
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
Deuteronomy 8:1-20 ESV / 143 helpful votes
“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 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 does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. …
Matthew 25:43 ESV / 142 helpful votes
I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
Luke 4:18 ESV / 141 helpful votes
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Isaiah 58:1-14 ESV / 139 helpful votes
“Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? …
Matthew 25:42 ESV / 137 helpful votes
For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
1 John 3:17 ESV / 128 helpful votes
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
Romans 12:13 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Luke 22:19 ESV / 128 helpful votes
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 127 helpful votes
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 126 helpful votes
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
James 2:15-17 ESV / 124 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.
2 Kings 4:43 ESV / 124 helpful votes
But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”
Matthew 25:34-40 ESV / 123 helpful votes
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, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? …
Luke 1:37 ESV / 118 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 117 helpful votes
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
2 Corinthians 9:9 ESV / 116 helpful votes
As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”
John 14:26-31 ESV / 116 helpful votes
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, …
Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 114 helpful votes
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Matthew 25:44 ESV / 113 helpful votes
Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’
Nehemiah 5:1-19 ESV / 113 helpful votes
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 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.” There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.” …
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 112 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
Matthew 25:45 ESV / 112 helpful votes
Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 111 helpful votes
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 110 helpful votes
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
Mark 14:7 ESV / 110 helpful votes
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.
Matthew 25:38 ESV / 109 helpful votes
And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
1 John 3:18 ESV / 106 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Acts 20:35 ESV / 106 helpful votes
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Deuteronomy 24:20 ESV / 106 helpful votes
When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Matthew 25:34 ESV / 105 helpful votes
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.
Psalm 112:9 ESV / 105 helpful votes
He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.
Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 105 helpful votes
You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
Matthew 25:46 ESV / 103 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Job 31:16-21 ESV / 103 helpful votes
“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow), if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, …
Leviticus 19:10-11 ESV / 103 helpful votes
And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God. “You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.
James 2:14 ESV / 102 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 102 helpful votes
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 101 helpful votes
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
James 2:17 ESV / 100 helpful votes
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Ezekiel 18:16 ESV / 100 helpful votes
Does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 100 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Romans 12:19-20 ESV / 98 helpful votes
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” 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.”
John 6:1-71 ESV / 98 helpful votes
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” …
James 2:18 ESV / 97 helpful votes
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
John 6:33-35 ESV / 97 helpful votes
For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” 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.
Luke 6:38 ESV / 97 helpful votes
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
John 3:17-18 ESV / 96 helpful votes
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. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Psalm 143:6 ESV / 95 helpful votes
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
Matthew 25:39 ESV / 93 helpful votes
And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’
Leviticus 19:10 ESV / 93 helpful votes
And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
Luke 12:33 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Galatians 2:10 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 77 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
John 3:16-17 ESV / 74 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.
1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 73 helpful votes
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
Isaiah 8:21 ESV / 72 helpful votes
They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
Proverbs 6:30 ESV / 68 helpful votes
People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
Job 31:32 ESV / 67 helpful votes
(the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler),
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
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