63 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went around the villages teaching.

The lips of a righteous man feeds many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber. Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

constant frictions of men corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing piety to be a means of gain. Withdraw from such.

that ye were at that time independent of Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and alien of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world.

For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?

But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be? So is he who stores up for himself, and is not being rich toward God.

And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the heavenly agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried. And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom.

Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days.read more.
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. Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

Because thou say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Behold, the days come, says lord LORD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of LORD.

Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.

We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor is there among us he who knows how long.

Her gates are sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her rulers are among the nations where the law is not. Yea, her prophets find no vision from LORD.

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor. And they shall seek a vision of the prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive. For this people's heart became fat, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are shut, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I will heal them.

Remember therefore from where thou have fallen, and repent and do the first works. And if not, I come to thee quickly, and will move thy lampstand out of its place, if thou do not repent.

But I am poor and needy, [yet] LORD thinks upon me. Thou are my help and my deliverer. Make no delay, O my God.

This poor man cried, and LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?

But I am poor and needy. Make haste to me, O God. Thou are my help and my deliverer, O LORD. Delay thou not.

Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained, what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

But Simon Peter having seen, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord.

And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far distant from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, be not troubled, for I am not worthy that thou should come under my roof.

I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?

Blessed are the poor in spirit, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

And having lifted up his eyes on his disciples, he said, Blessed are the poor, because the kingdom of God is what belongs to you. Blessed are those who hunger now, because ye will be filled. Blessed are those who weep now, because ye will laugh.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be filled.

LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou will not despise.

For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart o

He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.

Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly. Therefore be lowered under the mighty hand of God, so that he may lift you up in time,

Surely {the Lord is opposed to the arrogant (LXX/NT)}, but he gives grace to the lowly.

The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, {and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT)}, and

He filled those who are hungry with good things, and those who are rich he sent away empty.

Better is a little that the righteous man has than the abundance of many wicked men.

Better is little with the fear of LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Better is a little, with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in [his] ways, though he be rich.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.

Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.

Now let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

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.

They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth. And all these, having been well reported through faith, did not receive the promise,read more.
God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.

for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you,

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

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.