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 around the villages, in a circuit, teaching.

The lips of the righteous feed many; but fools die for lack of wisdom.

For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.

His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.

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

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and loses himself, or is cast away?

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared? So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

And it happened that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich one also died and was buried. And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.read more.
Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the just; he does not resist you.

Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah.

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

We did not see our signs; there is no prophet any more; neither is there among us any who knows how long.

Her gates have sunk in the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her kings and her rulers are among the nations. The Law is no more; also her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.

Disaster on disaster shall come, and rumor to rumor shall be. And they shall seek a vision from the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and wisdom from the elders.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which said, "By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and shall not perceive; for this people's heart has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent.

But I am poor and needy; Jehovah will care for me; You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.

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

All my bones shall say, O Jehovah, who is like You, who delivers the poor from those stronger than he; yea, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?

But I am poor and needy; make haste to me, O God; You are my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, wait no longer!

A Prayer of David. Bow down Your ear, O Jehovah, hear me; for I am poor and needy.

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

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.

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 established; what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?

And seeing, Simon Peter fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.

Then Jesus went with them. But He being yet not far off from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him, Lord, do not trouble Yourself. For I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof.

O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Blessed are the poor in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.

And lifting up His eyes to His disciples, He said, Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.

Jehovah keeps the simple; I was brought low, and He helped me.

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

For all those My hand has made, and all those exist, says Jehovah. But to this one I will look, to the afflicted and contrite spirit, and the one who trembles at My Word.

Jehovah is near to the broken-hearted; and saves those who are of a contrite spirit.

For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

He will turn to the prayer of the forsaken and not despise their prayer.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.

Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble. Therefore be humbled under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,

Surely He scorns the scorners; but He gives grace to the lowly.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, 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 He has sent away the rich empty.

A little to the righteous is better than the riches of many wicked.

Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah than great treasure and tumult with it. Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

Better is a little with righteousness than great gain without right.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver!

It is better to be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Better is a dry piece of bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with fighting.

But let the humble brother rejoice in his exaltation;

For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise,read more.
for God had provided some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in Heaven for you

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

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?

I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich), and I know the blasphemy of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.