12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

Yahweh, maketh poor, and enricheth, - Layeth low, yea exalteth;

Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:

The charm of a man, is his lovingkindness, - and better a poor man, than one who deceiveth.

The substance of the rich, is his strong city, the terror of the poor, is their poverty.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and, his wearying toil, let him remember no more.

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?

And, if his hand cannot reach sufficient for a lamb, then shall he bring in to bear his guilt - for that he hath sinned - two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons unto Yahweh, - one for a sin-bearer, and one for an ascending-sacrifice.

But, if her hand findeth not sufficiency for a lamb, then shall she take two turtle doves or two young pigeons, one for an ascending-sacrifice and one for a sin-bearer, - so shall the priest put a propitiatory-covering over her, and she shall he clean.

But if his hand cannot lay hold of two turtledove, or two young pigeons, then shall he bring in as his oblation - because he hath sinned - the tenth of an ephah of fine meal for bearing sin, - he shall not put thereon oil, neither shall he lay thereon frankincense, for a sin-bearer, it is.

But if he be poor and his hand hath not enough, then shall he take one he-lamb as a guilt-bearer to be waved to put a propitiatory-covering over him, - and one-tenth of fine meal, overflowed with oil for a meal-offering, and a log of oil,

The rich, shall not give more, and the poor, shall not give less, than the half-shekel, - when they give the heave-offering of Yahweh, to put a propitiatory-covering over your souls.

This is the law for him in whom hath been the plague of leprosy, whose hand hath not enough for that which pertaineth to his cleansing.