18 Bible Verses about Poverty, Causes Of

And when he had spent everything, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in want.

Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the settlement, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And as he was not able to pay, his master ordered that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out against you; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

And a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores,

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."

The steward said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

For they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in everythingall she had to live on."

for these all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on."

for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

Listen, my beloved brethren: has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and I know the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that through his poverty you might become rich.

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." But when the young man heard this, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

If I give all I have to the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.