- Matthew 5:6 (NIV):
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
- Luke 6:21a (NIV):
“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.”
- Isaiah 55:1 (NIV):
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”
- Psalm 107:9 (NIV):
“For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.”
- John 6:35 (NIV):
“Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.’”
- Proverbs 10:3 (NIV):
“The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.”
- Proverbs 16:26 (NIV):
“The appetite of laborers works for them; their hunger drives them on.”
- Isaiah 58:10 (NIV):
“and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”
- Psalm 34:10 (NIV):
“The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”
- Deuteronomy 8:3 (NIV):
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”
- Proverbs 19:15 (NIV):
“Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.”
- Matthew 25:35 (NIV):
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.”
- Isaiah 58:7 (NIV):
“Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?”
- Amos 8:11 (NIV):
“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.”
- Psalm 146:7 (NIV):
“He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free,”
- Proverbs 6:30-31 (NIV):
“People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving. Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.”
- Isaiah 49:10 (NIV):
“They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.”
- Psalm 63:1 (NIV):
“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.”
- Isaiah 41:17 (NIV):
“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.”
- Matthew 25:37-40 (NIV):
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”
- Proverbs 25:21 (NIV):
“If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.”
- Luke 6:25 (NIV):
“Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.”
- Romans 12:20 (NIV):
“On the contrary: ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.’”
- Isaiah 65:13 (NIV):
“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.’”
- Job 5:5 (NIV):
“The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.”
- Psalm 37:25 (NIV):
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.”
- Isaiah 32:6 (NIV):
“For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the Lord; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water.”
- Job 22:7 (NIV):
“You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry.”
- Psalm 109:10 (NIV):
“May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.”
- Jeremiah 14:3 (NIV):
“Their nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads.”