12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

“The Lord makes poor and rich;
He brings low, He also exalts.

Keep deception and lies far from me,
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion,

What is desirable in a man is his kindness,
And it is better to be a poor man than a liar.

The rich man’s wealth is his fortress,
The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

Let him drink and forget his poverty
And remember his trouble no more.

If you have nothing with which to pay,
Why should he take your bed from under you?

‘But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the Lord his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

But if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

‘But if his means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering.

“But if he is poor and his means are insufficient, then he is to take one male lamb for a guilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for him, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil,

The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.

This is the law for him in whom there is an infection of leprosy, whose means are limited for his cleansing.”