8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Poverty
Most Relevant Verses
And I will nourish you there, for there are still five years of famine, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
so shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your need like an armed man.
then your poverty comes stalking, and your want like a man armed with a shield.
He who deals with a lazy hand becomes poor; but the hand of the hard worker makes rich.
He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
For neither was anyone needy among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
