Bible VersesâFood Matters
Food Matters—ALWS Awareness Week 2012
Bible Verses—Food Matters
“Give us today the food we need...” Justice
Hunger
Micah 6:8 What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.
Lamentations 2:19 All through the night get up again and again to cry out to the Lord; Pour out your heart and beg him for mercy on your children— Children staving to death on every street corner.
Luke 18:22 Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
Matthew 6:11
Matthew 5:6 Luke 1:53 You're blessed when you've worked up He has filled the hungry with good Isaiah 58:10 a good appetite for God. His food and things and sent the rich away empty. If you offer your food to the hungry and drink is the best meal you'll ever eat. satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then Mark 6:30-44 your light shall rise in the darkness and Revelation 7:16 Jesus feeds five thousand people with your gloom be like the noonday. Never again will they hunger or thirst; five loaves of bread and two fish. neither sun nor any scorching heat will James 2:15-17 burn them. Deuteronomy 10:17-18 If a brother or sister lacks food and For the Lord your God is God of gods one of you says, "go in peace," and yet Bread / Food and Lord of lords, the great God, do not supply their bodily needs, what mighty and awesome, who shows no is the good of that? Faith if it has no Exodus 16:4-15 partiality and accepts no bribes. He works is dead. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the defends the cause of the fatherless Lord has given you to eat. and the widow, and loves the foreigner Deuteronomy 24:17-19 residing among you, giving them food Make sure refugees and orphans get Matthew 6:1-15 and clothing. their just rights. Don't take the cloak of This, then, is how you should pray: a widow as security for a loan. Don't “„Our Father in heaven, Proverbs 25: 21 ever forget that you were once slaves hallowed be your name, If your enemies are hungry, feed them; in Egypt and GOD, your God, got you your kingdom come, if they are thirsty, give them a drink. out of there. I command you: Do what your will be done, I'm telling you. on earth as it is in heaven. Isaiah 25:6 When you harvest your grain and for- Give us today our daily bread. Here on Mount Zion the Lord Almighty get a sheaf back in the field, don't go And forgive us our debts, will prepare a banquet for all the back and get it; leave it for the refugee, as we also have forgiven our debtors. nations of the world—a banquet of the the orphan, and the widow so that And lead us not into temptation, richest food and the finest wine. GOD, your God, will bless you in all but deliver us from the evil one.” your work. When you shake the olives Luke 3:11 off your trees, don't go back over the John 6:35-40 He answered, branches and strip them bare—what's I am the bread of life, Jesus told them. Whoever has two shirts must give one left is for the refugee, the orphan, and Those who come to me will never be to the man who has none, and whothe widow. And when you cut the hungry; those who believe in me will ever has food must share it. grapes in your vineyard, don't take never be thirsty. every last grape—leave a few for the 2 Corinthians 9:10 foreigner, the orphan, and the widow. John 6:35 And God, who supplies seed for the I am the bread of life. sower and bread to eat, will also Amos 5:24 supply you with all the seed you need Let justice roll down like waters, and Matthew 25:35 and will make it grow and produce a righteousness like an ever-flowing I was hungry and you gave me food, I rich harvest from your generosity. stream. was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. For further information contact Email: [email protected] Ph: 1300 763 407 Web: www.alws.org.au
Australian Lutheran World Service Awareness Week Food Matters Focus on food in the developing world
Dare to Dream a Different World
Bible Verses—Food Matters
“Give us today the food we need...” Justice
Hunger
Micah 6:8 What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.
Lamentations 2:19 All through the night get up again and again to cry out to the Lord; Pour out your heart and beg him for mercy on your children— Children staving to death on every street corner.
Luke 18:22 Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
Matthew 6:11
Matthew 5:6 Luke 1:53 You're blessed when you've worked up He has filled the hungry with good Isaiah 58:10 a good appetite for God. His food and things and sent the rich away empty. If you offer your food to the hungry and drink is the best meal you'll ever eat. satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then Mark 6:30-44 your light shall rise in the darkness and Revelation 7:16 Jesus feeds five thousand people with your gloom be like the noonday. Never again will they hunger or thirst; five loaves of bread and two fish. neither sun nor any scorching heat will James 2:15-17 burn them. Deuteronomy 10:17-18 If a brother or sister lacks food and For the Lord your God is God of gods one of you says, "go in peace," and yet Bread / Food and Lord of lords, the great God, do not supply their bodily needs, what mighty and awesome, who shows no is the good of that? Faith if it has no Exodus 16:4-15 partiality and accepts no bribes. He works is dead. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the defends the cause of the fatherless Lord has given you to eat. and the widow, and loves the foreigner Deuteronomy 24:17-19 residing among you, giving them food Make sure refugees and orphans get Matthew 6:1-15 and clothing. their just rights. Don't take the cloak of This, then, is how you should pray: a widow as security for a loan. Don't “„Our Father in heaven, Proverbs 25: 21 ever forget that you were once slaves hallowed be your name, If your enemies are hungry, feed them; in Egypt and GOD, your God, got you your kingdom come, if they are thirsty, give them a drink. out of there. I command you: Do what your will be done, I'm telling you. on earth as it is in heaven. Isaiah 25:6 When you harvest your grain and for- Give us today our daily bread. Here on Mount Zion the Lord Almighty get a sheaf back in the field, don't go And forgive us our debts, will prepare a banquet for all the back and get it; leave it for the refugee, as we also have forgiven our debtors. nations of the world—a banquet of the the orphan, and the widow so that And lead us not into temptation, richest food and the finest wine. GOD, your God, will bless you in all but deliver us from the evil one.” your work. When you shake the olives Luke 3:11 off your trees, don't go back over the John 6:35-40 He answered, branches and strip them bare—what's I am the bread of life, Jesus told them. Whoever has two shirts must give one left is for the refugee, the orphan, and Those who come to me will never be to the man who has none, and whothe widow. And when you cut the hungry; those who believe in me will ever has food must share it. grapes in your vineyard, don't take never be thirsty. every last grape—leave a few for the 2 Corinthians 9:10 foreigner, the orphan, and the widow. John 6:35 And God, who supplies seed for the I am the bread of life. sower and bread to eat, will also Amos 5:24 supply you with all the seed you need Let justice roll down like waters, and Matthew 25:35 and will make it grow and produce a righteousness like an ever-flowing I was hungry and you gave me food, I rich harvest from your generosity. stream. was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. For further information contact Email: [email protected] Ph: 1300 763 407 Web: www.alws.org.au
Australian Lutheran World Service Awareness Week Food Matters Focus on food in the developing world
Dare to Dream a Different World
