12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.

A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

"But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons,one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"

"But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

"But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD's offering to make atonement for your lives.

This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing."