12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

“The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
He brings low and He lifts up.

Keep deception and lies far from me;
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion,

That which is desirable in a man is his loyalty and unfailing love,
But it is better to be a poor man than a [wealthy] liar.

The rich man’s wealth is his fortress;
The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

Let him drink and forget his poverty
And no longer remember his trouble.

If you have nothing with which to pay [another’s debt when he defaults],
Why should his creditor take your bed from under you?

‘But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons as his guilt offering for his sin to the Lord, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

If she cannot afford a lamb then she shall take two turtledoves or young pigeons, one as a burnt offering, the other as a sin offering; the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

‘But if he cannot afford to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for his sin the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put [olive] oil or incense on it, for it is a sin offering.

“But if the cleansed leper is poor and his means are insufficient, then he is to take one lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil,

The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give this contribution to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.

This is the law for the one in whom there is an infection of leprosy, whose means are limited for his [ceremonial] cleansing.”