12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

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

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.

And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.