8 Bible Verses about Becoming Poor

Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline,
But he who regards reproof will be honored.

He who tills his land will have plenty of food,
But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.

In all labor there is profit,
But mere talk leads only to poverty.

Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them.

Then it came about on the fourth day that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, so that he will tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is this not so?”

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her
And cast her wealth into the sea;
And she will be consumed with fire.

and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse—

Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished.