8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Poverty
Most Relevant Verses
There I will also provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished.”’
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor;
Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
Your poverty will come in like a vagabond
And your need like an armed man.
Then your poverty will come as a robber
And your want like an armed man.
Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,
But the hand of the diligent makes rich.
He who loves pleasure will become a poor man;
He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales
