10 Bible Verses about Spiritual Destitution

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Disaster shall come upon disaster, and rumor shall follow rumor; and they shall seek a vision from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "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 the LORD.

When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

that you 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.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;