10 Bible Verses about Spiritual Destitution

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

Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:

We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

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

wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked: