5 Bible Verses about Spiritual Destitution

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

After he has spent all that he had, there was a severe famine through all that country, and he began to be in actual want.

Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the Covenants founded on God's Promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.

and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.

You say 'I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,' and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked!