12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

The LORD makes people poor and he makes people rich, he brings them low, and he also exalts them.

Keep deception and lies far away from me, and give me neither poverty nor wealth. Feed me with food that I need for today,

Human beings long for grace, and it's better to be poor than a man of deceit.

The rich hide within the fortress that is their wealth, but the poor are dismayed due to their poverty.

Let him drink, forget his poverty, and remember his troubles no more.

If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you?

"If he can't afford a goat, then he is to bring to the LORD for his sin offering two turtledoves or two young doves: one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

If she cannot afford a goat, then two turtledoves or two young doves one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering will serve for him to make atonement for her, so that she becomes clean."

"If he can't afford two turtledoves or two young doves, then he is to bring as his offering a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering for what he has committed. He is to put no olive oil or frankincense on it, since it's a sin offering.

"If the offeror is poor and cannot afford the regular offering, then he is to take one lamb for a guilt offering that will be presented in the form of a wave offering to atone for him, one tenth of a measure of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, one log of olive oil,

The rich person is not to give more, nor is the poor person to give less than the half shekel, when you give a contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.

This is the regulation concerning one who has an infectious skin disease but who cannot afford his cleansing."