10 Bible Verses about Spiritual Destitution

Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

Our ensigns we have not seen, There is no more a prophet, Nor with us is one knowing how long.

Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes are among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.

Mischief on mischief cometh, and report is on report, And they have sought a vision from a prophet, And law doth perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders,

Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.

and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

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

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,