63 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

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Mark 6:6

And he wondered for their unbelief. And he went about the towns teaching.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the just one shall feed many: and fools in wanting heart, shall die.

Isaiah 5:13

For this my people were carried into exile from not knowing; and their honor, men of famine, and their multitude dry with thirst

Isaiah 56:10-11

Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.

Jeremiah 5:4

And I said, Surely, they are weak; they became foolish: for they knew not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.

Hosea 4:6

My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I

1 Timothy 6:5

Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.

Luke 12:20-21

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be? So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

Luke 16:22-23

And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried; And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

James 5:1-6

Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you. Your riches have become corrupted, and your garments have been moth eaten; Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days.read more.
Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have led a luxurious life upon the earth, and have rioted in luxury; ye have nourished your hearts, as in the day of slaughter. Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just one; and he resists you not.

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days coming, says the Lord Jehovah, and I sent famine into the land; not a faniine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates sank into the earth; he destroyed and broke her bars: her king and her chiefs among the nations: no law: also her prophets found not a vision from Jehovah.

Ezekiel 7:26

And ruin upon ruin shall come, and report shall be to report; and they sought a vision from the prophet; and law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the old men.

Matthew 13:14-15

And the prophecy of Esaias is filled up in them, saying, In hearing shall ye hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.

Psalm 40:17

And I am poor and needy, Jehovah will think upon me: thou my help and my deliverer; thou will not delay, O my God.

Psalm 35:10

All my bones shall say, O Jehovah, who as thee, delivering the poor from him strong above him, and the poor and the needy from him stripping him?

Psalm 70:5

And I am poor and needy: O God, hasten to me, my help and my deliverer; thou, O Jehovah, wilt not delay.

Psalm 86:1

A prayer to David. Incline, O Jehovah, thine ear: answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Psalm 109:22

For poor and needy am I, and my heart wounded in my midst.

Psalm 8:3-4

For I shall see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars which thou didst prepare. What is man that thou wilt remember him? and the son of man that thou wilt review him?

Luke 7:6

And Jesus went with them. And now he being away not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not fit that thou shouldest come under my roof;

Luke 6:20-21

And he having lifted up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Happy the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

Psalm 116:6

Jehovah watching the simple: I was brought low, and he will save for me.

1 Peter 5:5-6

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble. Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:

Proverbs 15:16-17

Good is little with the fear of Jehovah more than much treasure and confusion with it Good a ration of herbs and love there, above an ox of the stall and hatred with it.

Proverbs 16:19

Good the cast down of spirit with the humble more than to divide the spoil with the proud.

James 1:9

And let the humble brother boast in his elevation:

Hebrews 11:37-40

They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth. And these all, having been testified of by faith, received not the promise:read more.
God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.

Revelation 2:9

I know thy works, and pressure, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but the synagogue of the adversary.

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Poverty, spiritual » Destitution of the truth

1 Timothy 6:5

Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.

2 Chronicles 15:3

And many days to Israel for not a God of truth, and for no priest teaching, and for no law.

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days coming, says the Lord Jehovah, and I sent famine into the land; not a faniine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.

Poverty, spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The bankrupt servant

Matthew 18:23-25

Therefore the kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, the king, who wished to lift up the word together with his servants. And he having begun to settle accounts, one was brought him, a debtor of ten thousand talents. And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.

Poverty, spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The laodicean church

Poverty, spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The gentiles

Poverty, spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » Inhabitants of jerusalem

Jeremiah 5:4

And I said, Surely, they are weak; they became foolish: for they knew not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.

Poverty, spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The prodigal son

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