63 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual
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The lips of the just one shall feed many: and fools in wanting heart, shall die.
For this my people were carried into exile from not knowing; and their honor, men of famine, and their multitude dry with thirst
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.
And I said, Surely, they are weak; they became foolish: for they knew not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.
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
Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.
That ye were in that time without Christy alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?
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.
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.
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.
For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
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.
Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me.
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.
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.
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.
Therefore remember whence thou hest fallen, and repent, and do the first works; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and I will move the chandelier out of its place, except thou repent.
And I am poor and needy, Jehovah will think upon me: thou my help and my deliverer; thou will not delay, O my God.
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?
And I am poor and needy: O God, hasten to me, my help and my deliverer; thou, O Jehovah, wilt not delay.
A prayer to David. Incline, O Jehovah, thine ear: answer me, for I am poor and needy.
For poor and needy am I, and my heart wounded in my midst.
For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.
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?
And Simon Peter fell upon his knees before Jesus, saying, Go out from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
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;
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.
The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.
And all these my hand made, and all these shall be, says Jehovah: and to this will I look, to the humble. and smitten of spirit, and trembling at my word.
Jehovah is near to the broken of heart, and he will save the humble of spirit
For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.
And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
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:
The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah anointed me to announce good news to the afflicted, he sent me to bind up to the broken of heart, to call freedom to the captives, and the opening of the prison to the bound.
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.
Good the poor one going in his integrity above him perverting the ways, and he the rich.
The obtaining of wisdom how good above gold and the obtaining of understanding to be chosen above silver.
Good the cast down of spirit with the humble more than to divide the spoil with the proud.
For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.
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.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,
As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?
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
Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.
For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
And many days to Israel for not a God of truth, and for no priest teaching, and for no law.
That ye were in that time without Christy alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
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
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
For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
Poverty, spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The gentiles
That ye were in that time without Christy alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Poverty, spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » Inhabitants of jerusalem
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
And having spent all things, a powerful famine was in that country; and he began to be in want.