47 Verses About Hungry from 17 Books

1 Corinthians 11:21

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

1 Corinthians 11:34

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

2 Kings 7:12

The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.'"

2 Samuel 17:29

and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."

Acts 10:10

He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

Ezekiel 18:7

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;



Ezekiel 18:16

neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Isaiah 8:21

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

Isaiah 9:20

One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

Isaiah 29:8

It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

Isaiah 32:6

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against the LORD, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Isaiah 44:12

The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

Isaiah 58:7

Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?



Isaiah 58:10

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore thus says the Lord the LORD, "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;

Job 5:5

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Job 22:7

You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Job 24:10

So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

John 6:35

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Luke 1:53

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.



Luke 4:2

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

Luke 6:3

Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

Luke 6:25

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Mark 2:25

He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and those who were with him?

Mark 11:12

The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

Matthew 12:1

At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.



Matthew 12:3

But he said to them, "Haven't you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

Matthew 21:18

Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Matthew 25:35

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

Matthew 25:37

"Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

Matthew 25:42

for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

Matthew 25:44

"Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'

Philippians 4:12

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.



Proverbs 6:30

Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

Proverbs 10:3

the LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

Proverbs 13:25

The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

Proverbs 25:21

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

Proverbs 27:7

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

Psalms 50:12

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

Psalms 107:5

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Psalms 107:9

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Psalms 107:36

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

Psalms 146:7

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. the LORD frees the prisoners.

Revelation 7:16

They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;

Romans 12:20

Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."





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