What Are Some Bible Verses About Giving Food to Others?

We find several Bible verses about giving food to others throughout Scripture. One of the most significant examples is Jesus feeding the 5,000, which is the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels (Matthew 14, Mark 6, Luke 9, John 6). Starting with just five loaves and two fish from a boy’s lunch, Jesus miraculously fed as many as 15,000–20,000 people (including the women and children with the 5,000 men mentioned), with “twelve baskets full of fragments and of the fish” left over (Mark 6:43). God didn’t merely provide, He provided abundantly and lavishly.[1]

Jesus fed those people in the Bible, and He cares about feeding people today. Although things have improved over the years, malnutrition is still a major problem in many countries all over the world. A lack of proper nutrition in early childhood leads to stunted growth and other impacts over a lifetime. One study shows that being stunted at two years old was associated with leaving school 3.14 years earlier compared to non-stunted peers.[2] Women who were stunted at two had a 42% higher chance of living in poverty than non-stunted women.[3] When parents can’t feed their kids, those children cannot focus or succeed in school, leading them to remain poor as they grow up, unable to feed their own kids. Thus, the cycle of poverty continues.