5 Bible Verses about Spiritual Destitution

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for to them belongs the Kingdom of the Heavens.

At last, when he had spent everything, there came a terrible famine throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch of want.

At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.

and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain.

You say, I am rich, and have wealth stored up, and I stand in need of nothing; and you do not know that if there is a wretched creature it is *you* -- pitiable, poor, blind, naked.