63 Bible Verses about Poverty, Spiritual

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Mark 6:6

And He marveled because of their unbelief. And He went around the villages, in a circuit, teaching.

Proverbs 10:21

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

Isaiah 5:13

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

Isaiah 56:10-11

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.

Jeremiah 5:4

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.

Hosea 4:6

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.

1 Timothy 6:5

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

Luke 12:20-21

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.

Luke 16:22-23

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.

James 5:1-6

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.

Amos 8:11

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.

Lamentations 2:9

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.

Ezekiel 7:26

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.

Matthew 13:14-15

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."

Psalm 40:17

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

Psalm 35:10

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?

Psalm 70:5

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

Psalm 86:1

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

Psalm 109:22

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

Romans 7:18

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.

Psalm 8:3-4

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?

Luke 7:6

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.

Luke 6:20-21

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.

Psalm 116:6

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

1 Peter 5:5-6

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,

Proverbs 15:16-17

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.

Proverbs 28:6

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

Proverbs 16:19

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

James 1:9

But let the humble brother rejoice in his exaltation;

Hebrews 11:37-40

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.

Revelation 2:9

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.

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Poverty, spiritual » Destitution of the truth

1 Timothy 6:5

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

2 Chronicles 15:3

And for a long time Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Amos 8:11

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.

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

Matthew 18:23-25

Therefore the kingdom of Heaven has been compared to a certain king who desired to make an accounting with his servants. And when he had begun to count, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he, and his wife and children, and all that he had, be sold, and payment be made.

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

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.

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

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