12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

Jehovah dispossessing, and enriching: making low, but lifting up.

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

The desire of man his mercy: and the poor good above the man of falsehood.

The wealth of the rich his strong city: the destruction of the poor their poverty.

He shall drink and forget his poverty, and shall no more remember his toil.

If not to thee to requite, why shall he take thy bed from under thee?

And if his hand shall not reach the sufficiency of a sheep, and he brought his trespass which he sinned, two turtledoves, or two sons of a dove, to Jehovah; one for the sin, and one for the burnt-offering.

And if her hand shall not find the sufficiency of a sheep, and she took two turtle-doves or two sons of the dove; one for a burnt-offering, and one for sin: and the priest expiated for her, and she was clean.

And if his hand shall not reach to the two turtle-doves, or to the two sons of a dove; and he brought his offering who sinned, the tenth of the ephah of fine flour for the sin; he shall not put oil upon it, and he shall not give frankincense upon it; for it is sin.

And if he be poor, and his hand attaining not; and he took one lamb a trespass, for a waving to expiate for him, and one tenth of fine flour mingled with oil, for the gift, and a measure of oil.

The rich one shall not multiply, and the poor one shall not diminish from half the shekel, to give an offering to Jehovah to expiate for your souls.

This the law of him in whom the stroke of leprosy, which his hand attained not in his cleansing.