10 Bible Verses about Spiritual Destitution

"Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Now Israel [has been] without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.

Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes [are] among the nations; there is no more law. Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh.

Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor will be upon rumor. And they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from [the] priest and counsel from [the] elders.

Look, the days are coming," {declares} my Lord Yahweh, "when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread and not a thirst for water, but {of hearing} the words of Yahweh!

And [after] he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

constant wrangling by people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who consider godliness to be a means of gain.

Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,