63 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

He did not do many mighty works there because of their lack of faith.

He wondered at their unbelief. Then he went around to the villages teaching.

The lips of the righteous feed many. Fools die for lack of understanding.

My people will go into exile because they do not understand what I am doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.

Israel's watchmen are blind. They all lack knowledge they are all mute dogs. They cannot bark. They just lie around and dream, they love to sleep. They are dogs with mighty appetites. They never have enough! They are shepherds who lack understanding. They all turn to their own way and each one seeks dishonest (unjust) gain.

I thought: These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you! You will not be a priest to me since you have forgotten the Law of your God. Therefore, I will forget your children.

frictions between men corrupted in mind and lacking in truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.

You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.

What will a man profit, if he gains the whole world, and gives up his life? What will a man give in exchange for his life?

For what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?' He who lays up (earthly) treasure for himself is not rich toward God.

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man died and was buried. He was in great torment in the grave (hades). He looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are rusted. Their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up your treasure in the last days.read more.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts. You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, and you have killed the righteous one. He does not resist you.

You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Behold, the day is coming, said the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.

Do not force me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet. There is no one who knows how long.

Her gates have gone down into the earth. He destroyed her locks and bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where there is no law. Her prophets have had no vision from Jehovah.

Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will try to get a vision from the prophet. The teaching of the law by the priest will be lost, as will the counsel of the elders.

The prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled. 'By hearing, you shall hear, and shall in no way understand. By seeing you shall see, and shall in no way perceive. The heart of this people is callous and dull. Their ears are plugged. They cannot hear. They closed their eyes and cannot see. They cannot see nor hear nor understand with their heart. They should turn around and I would heal them.'

Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins (repent) and do what you did at first. If you do not turn from your sins, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.

I am oppressed and needy. May Jehovah think of me. You are my help and my salvation. O my God, do not delay!

The poor man called out. Jehovah heard him and saved him from all his troubles.

All my bones will say: O Jehovah, who can compare with you? You rescue the weak person from the one who is too strong for him and weak and needy people from the one who robs them.

But I am oppressed and needy. O God, come to me quickly. You are my help and my deliverer. O Jehovah do not delay!

([Prayer by David]) Listen to me, O Jehovah. Answer me, for I am oppressed and needy.

I am oppressed and needy. I feel pain in my heart.

I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

When I look at your heavens, the creation of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have set in place, what is man that you remember him or the son of man that you take care of him?

When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at Jesus' knees. He said: Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

Jesus went with them. As he approached the house, the centurion sent friends to him saying, Lord do not trouble yourself. I am not worthy that you should come under my roof.

Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?

Blessed (Greek: makarios: happy, blessed) are those conscious of their spiritual need, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

He looked at his disciples and said: Blessed are you who are poor for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now: for you shall laugh.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Jehovah protects defenseless people (simple ones). When I was weak, he saved me.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. O God, you do not despise a broken and sorrowful (contrite) heart.

I have made all these things. That is why all these things have come into being, declares Jehovah. I will pay attention to those who are humble and sorry for their sins and who tremble at my word.

Jehovah is near to those whose hearts and minds are humble and contrite. He saves the broken hearted and crushed in spirit.

The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: 'I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.'

He has respected the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.

But he gives more grace. The scripture said, God resists the proud, but gives grace (loving-kindness) to the humble.

Likewise, you younger men, be subject to the older men. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and serve one another. God resists the proud, but gives loving kindness to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you at the proper time.

He has no use for conceited people. He shows loving kindness to the humble.

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah has anointed me to announce good news to the lowly and meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.

He fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty handed.

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.

It is better to have a little with respect for Jehovah than great treasure and trouble. Better is a bowel of soup where there is love, than a steak with someone you hate.

Better to be poor with righteousness than rich with injustice.

Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.

Better is the poor man who walks in uprightness, than the rich man who is perverse in his ways.

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding instead of silver!

It is better to be humble and lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Better is dry bread in peace than a house full of feasting with discord.

Let the brother of humble circumstances glory in his high position (exaltation).

You shared the sufferings of prisoners. When all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly. This is because you knew that you possessed something much better, which would last forever.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. The world was not worthy of them! They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise.read more.
God provided something better for us that they might not be made perfect without us.

You are born to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away and is reserved in heaven for you.

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

Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?

I know your troubles. I know that you are poor, but you are rich! I know the evil things said against you by those who claim to be Jews but are not. Their synagogue belongs to Satan!