Job 22:7-9
7You have given no water to the weary to drink,and you have awithheld bread from the hungry.
8 bThe man with power possessed the land,
and cthe favored man lived in it.
9You have dsent widows away empty,
and ethe arms of fthe fatherless were crushed.
Proverbs 3:27-28
27 gDo not withhold good from those to whom it is due, ▼▼Hebrew Do not withhold good from its owners
when it is in your power to do it.
28 iDo not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,
tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.
Matthew 14:15-16
15Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; jsend the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” 16But Jesus said, “They need not go away; kyou give them something to eat.”Matthew 15:32
Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand
32 lThen Jesus called his disciples to him and said, m“I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”Matthew 25:42-45
42For nI was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43I 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.’ 44Then 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?’ 45Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, oyou did not do it to me.’Romans 12:9
Marks of the True Christian
9 pLet love be genuine. qAbhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
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