62 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

And the works of power which he did there were small in number because they had no faith.

And he was greatly surprised because they had no faith. And he went about the country places teaching.

The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep. Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth. And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you. Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.read more.
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction. You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.

Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old.

And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.

Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.

Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places; What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

And Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the man sent friends to him, saying, Lord, do not give yourself trouble: for I am not important enough for you to come into my house:

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours. Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.

The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.

The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low. For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;

The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble. Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked, Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough. And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,read more.
Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.