55 Bible Verses about Poverty, Causes Of

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

And Jehovah God will cause to grow out of the earth every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of lives in the midst of the garden, and the tree to know good and evil. And a river shall go out from Eden to water the garden, and from thence it shall be separated into four heads. The name of the one, Pison: it is that surrounding all the land Havilah, where there is gold.read more.
And the gold of that land is good. There bdellium and onyx stone. And the name of the second river, Gihon: that surrounding all the land of Cush. And the name of the third river, Hiddekel, that going forth east of Assyria. And the fourth river, Euphrates.

Because that thou servedst not Jehovah thy God injoy and in a good heart for the multitude of all things. And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.

He oppressing the poor one to increase for himself, he gave to the rich; also to want

For behold, the Lord Jehovah of armies taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay, and the stay, all the stay of bread, and all the stay of water.

And also I gave to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.

For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came as he going, and thy want as a man of the shield.

A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.

In all labor will be profit: and the word of the lips only to want

Thou shalt not love sleep lest thou shalt be dispossessed: open wide thine eyes, being filled with bread.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.

A man of poverty loving joy: he loving wine and oil shall not be rich.

For by a woman a harlot, even to a round of bread: and a man's wife will hunt the precious soul.

He working his land shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing the vain shall be filled with poverty.

And having spent all things, a powerful famine was in that country; and he began to be in want.

Instruction dismisses poverty and shame: and he watching reproof shall be honored.

The purposes of the active only to abundance; and every one hastening only to want

Thou shalt not be with those striking the hand with those pledging for debts. If not to thee to requite, why shall he take thy bed from under thee?

Therefore the kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, the king, who wished to lift up the word together with his servants. And he having begun to settle accounts, one was brought him, a debtor of ten thousand talents. And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.

There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to want

A man of evil eye hasted for riches, and knew not that want shall come upon him.

I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive.

Looking for much, and behold, to little; and ye brought to the house and I blew upon it For what? says Jehovah of armies. Because of mine house that it was laid waste, and ye run each to his house.

And Israel will be enfeebled from the face of Midian; and the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah.

For he oppressed, forsaking the poor; he stripped the house and he will not build it up.

Much food to the fallow ground of the poor: and in no judgment there is destroying

Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers.

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

And I nourished thee there (for yet five years of famine), lest thou shalt be poor, thou and thy house, and all which is to thee.

And Joseph will buy all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold each his field, for the famine was strong over them: and the land will be to Pharaoh. And the people, he made them pass over to the cities from the extremity of the bounds of Egypt, and even to the extremity.

And the day will be and his sons and daughters will be eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born: And a messenger came to Job; and he will say, The oxen were ploughing, and the he asses were feeding upon their hands. And Sheba will fall and take them; they struck the young men by the month of the sword; and only shall escape, I alone, to announce to thee..read more.
This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The fire of God. fell from the heavens, and it will burn upon the sheep and upon the young men, and it will devour them; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee. This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The Chaldeans set three heads, and they invaded upon the camels, and they will take them, and they struck the young men with the mouth of the sword; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee. This yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, Thy sons and thy daughters Were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born: And behold, a great wind came from beyond the desert., and it will touch upon the four corners of the house, and fall upon the young men, and they will die; and I shall escape, I only, to announce to thee. And Job will rise and rend his covering, and shave his head, and fall to the earth and worship. And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.

For Jehovah thy God brings thee to a good land, a land of torrents of water, fountains, and depths going forth in the valley and in the mountain; A land of wheat and barley and the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate, a land of the olive tree, of oil and honey; A land where thou shalt eat bread in it not with poverty; thou shalt not want any thing in it; a land whose stones, iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt hew out brass.

Fear Jehovah, ye his holy ones; for no want to those fearing him. The young lions suffered want and were hungry: and they seeking Jehovah shall not want any good.

I was a youth, also I grew old, and I saw not the just one forsaken and his seed seeking bread.

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

And there was a certain beggar, Lazarus by name, who was cast at his gate, having been wounded,

For Macedonia and Achaia were contented a certain mutual participation be made for the poor of the holy ones in Jerusalem.

And Jesus says to him, The foxes have dens, and the fowls of heaven occupy nests; but the Son of man has not where he might recline the head.

The wealth of the rich his strong city: the destruction of the poor their poverty.

And the steward said in himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away the stewardship from me: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

He shall drink and forget his poverty, and shall no more remember his toil.

They will not despise a thief if he shall steal to fill up his soul; for he will be hungry.

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance: Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God.

Good for me that thou didst humble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.

For all they cast in out of the abundance to them; and she, out of her want, cast in all things which she had, her whole living.

For all they, of that abounding to them, have cast in to the gifts of God: and she from her want cast in all the living which she had.

That in much proof of pressure the abundance of their joy and their poverty according to depth abounded to the abundance of their simplicity.

Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?

I know thy works, and pressure, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but the synagogue of the adversary.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.

Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. And the young man having heard the word, departed, being grieved: for he was holding many possessions.

For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.