63 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

And he did not perform many miracles in that place because of their unbelief.

And he was astonished because of their unbelief.

Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools {die for lack of sense}.

Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, [and] their nobles [will be] men of hunger, and their multitude [is] parched [with] thirst.

His watchmen [are] blind, none of them know. They [are] all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber. And the dogs {have a greedy appetite}; they {are never satisfied}. And they are [the] shepherds! They do not have understanding. They all turn to their [own] way, each one for his [own] gain, {every one of them}.

Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.

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

constant wrangling by people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who consider godliness to be a means of gain.

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

For what will a person be benefited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?

For what is a person benefited [if he] gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?' So [is] the one who stores up treasure for himself, and who is not rich toward God!"

Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to {Abraham's side}. And the rich man also died and was buried. And in Hades he lifted up his eyes [as he] was in torment [and] saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus {at his side}.

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you! Your wealth has rotted, and your clothing has become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.read more.
Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived self-indulgently on the earth and have lived luxuriously. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous [person]; he does not resist you.

Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,

Look, the days are coming," {declares} my Lord Yahweh, "when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread and not a thirst for water, but {of hearing} the words of Yahweh!

Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.

Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes [are] among the nations; there is no more law. Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh.

Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor will be upon rumor. And they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from [the] priest and counsel from [the] elders.

and with reference to them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says, "{You will listen carefully} and will never understand, and {you will look closely} and will never perceive. For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not 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, and repent and do {the works you did at first}. But if you do not, I am coming to you, and I will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

But I [am] poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.

This poor [man] called and Yahweh heard, and saved him from all his troubles.

All of my bones shall say, "O Yahweh, who [is] like you, who delivers [the] poor from [one] stronger than he and [the] poor and needy from [the one who] robs him?"

But I [am] poor and needy; O God hasten to me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O Yahweh, do not delay.

Incline, O Yahweh, your ear [and] answer me, because I [am] poor and needy.

for I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

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 set in place-- what [is] a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?

And [when he] saw [it], Simon Peter fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, Lord, because I am {a sinful man}!"

So Jesus went with them. Now by this time he was not far away from the house, [and] the centurion sent friends, saying to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof.

Wretched man [that] I [am]! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

"Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

And he lifted up his eyes to his disciples [and] said, "Blessed [are] the poor, because yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed [are] those who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. Blessed [are] those who weep now, Because you will laugh.

Blessed [are] the ones who hunger and thirst [for] righteousness, because they will be satisfied.

Yahweh watches over [the] simple. I was brought low, but he gave me victory.

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

And my hand has made all these [things], and all these {came to be}," {declares} Yahweh, "but I look to this [one]: to [the] humble and [the] contrite of spirit and [the one] frightened at my word.

Yahweh [is] near to [those who are] heartbroken and saves [those who are] crushed in spirit.

For thus says [the] high and lofty one who resides forever, and [whose] name [is] holy: "I reside [in] a high and holy place, and with [the] {contrite} and humble of spirit, to revive [the] spirit of [the] humble, and to revive [the] heart of [the] {contrite}.

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

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

In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all [of you] clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes 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 [right] time,

With those who scorn, he is scornful, but to those who are humble, he gives favor.

[The] Spirit of the Lord Yahweh [is] upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news [to the] oppressed, to bind up {the brokenhearted}, to {proclaim} release to [the] captives and liberation to those who are bound,

He has filled those who are hungry with good [things], and those who are rich he has sent away empty-handed.

[The] little belonging to the righteous [is] better than [the] wealth of many wicked.

Better [is] little with the fear of Yahweh than great treasure and trouble with it. Better [is] a dinner of vegetables when love [is] there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice.

Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.

Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.

Getting wisdom: {how much} better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen {over} silver.

Better a lowly spirit with the poor than dividing the spoil with the proud.

Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled [with] feasts of strife.

Now let the brother of humble circumstances boast in his high position,

For you both sympathized with the prisoners and put up with the seizure of your belongings with joy [because you] knew that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by murder with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, impoverished, afflicted, mistreated, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground. And [although they] all were approved through their faith, they did not receive what was promised,read more.
[because] God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you

as grieving, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and possessing everything.

Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the 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 (but you are rich), and the slander of those {who call themselves Jews} and are not, but [are] a synagogue of Satan.