29 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

and he did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.

And he wondered at their unbelief. And he went about the villages in order, teaching.

and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.

that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world;

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his life? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and destroys himself, or loses his life?

But God said to him, Foolish man, this night they shall require your soul from you; and who then will have the goods which you have provided? So is every one that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich in God.

And the poor man died, and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Come now, rich men, weep and lament for the miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have decayed, and your garments are moth-eaten, your gold and silver are destroyed with rust, and their rust will be a witness against you, and consume your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasures for the last days.read more.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, kept back by you, cry, and the loud calls of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. You have lived in luxury on the earth and in pleasure, you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you.

For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says; Hearing you shall hear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive; for the hearts of this people have become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should heal them.

Remember therefore whence you have fallen, and change your minds, and do the first works, otherwise I will come to you and remove your candlestick from its place, unless you change your minds.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;

And Simon Peter seeing it fell on his knees to Jesus, saying, Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.

And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying, Lord, trouble not yourself, for I am not fit that you should come under my roof.

Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?

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

And he lifted up his eyes upon his disciples and said, Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.

Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

But he gives more grace; wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do you all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

he has filled the hungry with goods, and sent the rich away empty.

But let the brother that is humble rejoice in his exaltation,

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and openings of the earth. And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise,read more.
God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you

as grieving but always rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and possessing all things.

Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich, and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.