29 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

And he did no mighty works there, because of their lack of faith.

And he wondered at their lack of faith. So he went among the neighboring villages, teaching.

and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

"But God said to him. 'Foolish man! This very night your soul is wanted! And these things you have prepared, whose shall they be? "So is he that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich toward God."

"But in the course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom. "The rich man also died, and was buried. And as he was tormented in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you! For your riches lie rotting, and your clothing has become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are rusted. and their rust will be for a testimony against you, and it will eat your flesh. For you have been storing up fire in these last days!read more.
Look! the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been keeping back by fraud, are crying aloud! And the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth! You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous man unresisting!

For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.

And in them is being fulfilled that prophecy of Isaiah which says. "Hearing you will hear and not understand; Seeing you will see and not perceive; For the heart of his people is made fat, Their ears are dull of hearing; Their eyes, too, have they closed, Lest some day their eyes should perceive, And their ears should hear, And their heart should understand and turn, And I should heal them.

Remember whence you have fallen, and turn again, and do your first works. Otherwise I am coming to you and will remove your candlestick out of its place, unless you repent.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good thing has its home; for while to will is present with me, to carry out that which is right is not.

When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at the knees of Jesus, exclaiming, "Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man!"

So Jesus started to go with them, but while he was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to him with a message. "Lord do not trouble yourself, for I am not fit that you should come under my roof,

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Then raising his eyes upon his disciples he began to say to them. "Blessed are you poor, For the kingdom of God is yours. "Blessed are you who are hungry now, For you shall be filled. "Blessed are you who are wailing now, For you shall laugh.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied.

But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.

You younger men must submit to the presbyters; and all of you must put on the garment of humility and serve one another, for God resists the haughty, But gives grace to the humble. So humble yourselves under God's mighty hand, so that he may exalt you in due time.

"The hungry he has filled with good things, But the rich he has sent empty away.

Let a brother in humble circumstances glory in his exaltation;

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground. Yet, though these all had witness borne to them by their faith, they received not the promise; since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.

and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you

as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

I know your persecution and your poverty??ut you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.