12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

The desirableness of a man is his kindness, And better is the poor than a liar.

The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?

And if his hand reach not to the sufficiency of a lamb, then he hath brought in his guilt-offering -- he who hath sinned -- two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to Jehovah, one for a sin-offering, and one for a burnt-offering;

'And if her hand find not the sufficiency of a sheep, then she hath taken two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, one for a burnt-offering, and one for a sin-offering, and the priest hath made atonement for her, and she hath been cleansed.'

And if his hand reach not to two turtle-doves, or to two young pigeons, then he hath brought in his offering -- he who hath sinned -- a tenth of an ephah of flour for a sin-offering; he putteth no oil on it, nor doth he put on it frankincense, for it is a sin-offering,

And if he is poor, and his hand is not reaching these things, then he hath taken one lamb -- a guilt-offering, for a wave-offering, to make atonement for him, and one-tenth deal of flour mixed with oil for a present, and a log of oil,

the rich doth not multiply, and the poor doth not diminish from the half-shekel, to give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

This is a law of him in whom is a plague of leprosy, whose hand reacheth not to his cleansing.'