55 Bible Verses about Poverty, Causes Of

And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all Also, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

And out of the ground LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, also the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was divided, and became four heads. The name of the first is Pishon. That is it which encompasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.read more.
And the gold of that land is good. There is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon. The same is it which encompasses the whole land of Cush. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel [Tigris]. That is it which goes in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Because thou served not LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things, therefore thou shall serve thine enemies that LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he has destroyed thee.

He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.

For, behold, the Lord, LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.

[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

For the price of a harlot is as much as a piece of bread, but the adulteress hunts for the precious life.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity shall have poverty enough.

And when he spent all, a mighty famine developed in that country, and he began to be in want.

Poverty and shame [are to] him who refuses correction, but he who regards reproof shall be honored.

The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.

Be thou not one of those who strike hands, [or] of those who are sureties for debts. If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Because of this the kingdom of the heavens is compared to a man, a king, who wanted to settle account with his bondmen. And when he began to settle, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him. But of him not having to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all things, as many as he had, and payment to be made.

There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.

He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.

I gave you a glimpse of all things, that so laboring ye ought to aid the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

And Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried to LORD.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor, but there is [that is] consumed because of injustice.

Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Your land--strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.

And there will I nourish thee, for there are yet five years of famine, lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou have.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians, every man, sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's. And as for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.read more.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house. And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee. Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped. And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

For LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which thou shall eat bread without scarceness. Thou shall not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou may dig copper.

O fear LORD, ye his sanctified, for there is no want to those who fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek LORD shall not want any good thing.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen a righteous man forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo

But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores,

For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain participation for the poor of the sanctified at Jerusalem.

And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky, nests, but the Son of man has nowhere he may lay his head.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

And the manager said within himself, What shall I do because my lord takes away the management from me? I am not able to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

Let him drink, and forget his need, and remember his misery no more.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn thy statutes.

For they all cast in from that which is abundant to them, but she from her need cast in all, as many things she had, her whole living.

For all these cast into the offerings of God from their abundance, but this woman from her poverty cast in all the living that she had.

that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, even from the depth of their poverty, abounded for the wealth of their generosity,

Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?

I know thy works and tribulation and poverty (but thou are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

Jesus said to him, If thou want to be perfect, go, sell the things being possessed by thee, and give to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me. But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions.

For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens.

And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.