63 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.

And He was amazed at their unbelief.

Now He was going around the villages in a circuit, teaching.

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

Therefore My people will go into exile
because they lack knowledge;
her dignitaries are starving,
and her masses are parched with thirst.

Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them,
they know nothing;
all of them are mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they dream, lie down,
and love to sleep.
These dogs have fierce appetites;
they never have enough.
And they are shepherds
who have no discernment;
all of them turn to their own way,
every last one for his own gain.

Then I thought:

They are just the poor;
they have played the fool.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.

and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits himself?

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’ “That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you. Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days! read more.
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter. You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

Hear this! The days are coming—
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.

Do not banish me from Your presence
or take Your Holy Spirit from me.

There are no signs for us to see.
There is no longer a prophet.
And none of us knows how long this will last.

ט TetZion’s gates have fallen to the ground;
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction is no more,
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the Lord.

Disaster after disaster will come,
and there will be rumor after rumor.
Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,
but instruction will perish from the priests
and counsel from the elders.

Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:

You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.
For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn back—
and I would cure them.

Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

I am afflicted and needy;
the Lord thinks of me.
You are my helper and my deliverer;
my God, do not delay.

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
and saved him from all his troubles.

My very bones will say,
“Lord, who is like You,
rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,
the poor or the needy from one who robs him?”

I am afflicted and needy;
hurry to me, God.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Lord, do not delay.

A Davidic prayer.Listen, Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.

For I am afflicted and needy;
my heart is wounded within me.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

Therefore I take back my words
and repent in dust and ashes.

When I observe Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You set in place,
what is man that You remember him,
the son of man that You look after him?

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, because I’m a sinful man, Lord!”

Jesus went with them, and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to tell Him, “Lord, don’t trouble Yourself, since I am not worthy to have You come under my roof.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?

“The poor in spirit are blessed,
for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Then looking up at His disciples, He said:

You who are poor are blessed,
because the kingdom of God is yours.
You who are now hungry are blessed,
because you will be filled.
You who now weep are blessed,
because you will laugh.

Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed,
for they will be filled.

The Lord guards the inexperienced;
I was helpless, and He saved me.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.
God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.

My hand made all these things,
and so they all came into being.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will look favorably on this kind of person:
one who is humble, submissive in spirit,
and trembles at My word.

The Lord is near the brokenhearted;
He saves those crushed in spirit.

For the High and Exalted One
who lives forever, whose name is Holy says this:
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.

He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute
and will not despise their prayer.

But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:

God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.

In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because

God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time,

He mocks those who mock,
but gives grace to the humble.

The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me,
because the Lord has anointed Me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners;

He has satisfied the hungry with good things
and sent the rich away empty.

The little that the righteous man has is better
than the abundance of many wicked people.

Better a little with the fear of the Lord
than great treasure with turmoil. Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened ox with hatred.

Better a little with righteousness
than great income with injustice.

Better a poor man who lives with integrity
than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.

Better a poor man who lives with integrity
than a rich man who distorts right and wrong.

Get wisdom—
how much better it is than gold!
And get understanding—
it is preferable to silver.

Better to be lowly of spirit with the humble
than to divide plunder with the proud.

Better a dry crust with peace
than a house full of feasting with strife.

The brother of humble circumstances should boast in his exaltation,

For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground. All these were approved through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised, read more.
since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

as grieving yet always rejoicing;
as poor yet enriching many;
as having nothing yet possessing everything.

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?

I know your affliction and poverty, yet you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.