So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.

For when ye have stolen, murdered, committed adultery and penury; When ye have offered unto Baal, following strange and unknown gods;

Therefore are ye cursed with penury, because ye dissemble with me, all the sort of you.

For they all threw in of their abundance; but she out of her penury threw in all that she had, her whole living.

For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword?

to this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:

from imprisonments, from tumults, from labours, from watchings, from penury.

expos'd to toil, to fatigue, to frequent watchings, to hunger and thirst, to frequent fastings, to cold and penury.

I know how to abound: every where, and in every circumstance, I have been prepar'd for fulness or famine, for plenty or penury: