63 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

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

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

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.

Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.read more.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land-- not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.

Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!

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

All my bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?"

But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay!

Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord."

And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. "Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.

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

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

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

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

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

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

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

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

They were stoned, they were sawn in two,they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated-- of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,read more.
since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

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

"'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.