Hunger
4 lines · 15 passages
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Of Jesus
Matt 4:2–4; 21:18; Mark 11:12; Luke 4:2–4; John 4:8
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Matthew 4:218 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew 21:1812 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
Mark 11:122 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. 3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. 4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Luke 4:28 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
John 4:8 -
A stimulus to work
Prov 16:26
26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Proverbs 16:26 -
No hunger in heaven
Rev 7:16, 17
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Revelation 7:1617 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Revelation 7:17 - See Famine
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Spiritual
Prov 2:3–5; Isa 55:1, 2; Amos 8:11–13; Matt 5:6; Luke 6:21; 1 Pet 2:2
3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:31 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 55:12 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah 55:211 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Amos 8:116 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:621 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
Luke 6:212 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
1 Peter 2:2 - See Desire, spiritual
- See Thirst
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
