8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Poverty

There I will provide for you and sustain you, so that you and your household and all that are yours may not become impoverished, for there are still five years of famine to come.”’

Do not love [excessive] sleep, or you will become poor;
Open your eyes [so that you can do your work] and you will be satisfied with bread.

So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]
And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].

Then your poverty will come as a robber,
And your want like an armed man.

Poor is he who works with a negligent and idle hand,
But the hand of the diligent makes him rich.

He who loves [only selfish] pleasure will become a poor man;
He who loves and is devoted to wine and [olive] oil will not become rich.

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And the drowsiness [of overindulgence] will clothe one with rags.

There was not a needy person among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them, and bringing the proceeds of the sales