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 teaching.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the law of their God.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

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

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared?whose will they be?' So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. In hell, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.read more.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He does not resist you.

Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "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 the LORD.

Do not throw me from your presence, and do not take your holy Spirit from me.

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Disaster shall come upon disaster, and rumor shall follow rumor; and they shall seek a vision from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive: for this people's heart has grown callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Do not delay, my God.

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

All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. LORD, do not delay.

Hear, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."

Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.

What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

The LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

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

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be," says the LORD: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

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

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, towards one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Surely he is scornful to scoffers, but he gives grace to the humble.

The Spirit of the LORD is on me; because he has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and an opening of the eyes to those who are bound;

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

Better is little, with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure with trouble. Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

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 integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold. Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

For you both had compassion on them that were in chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an enduring one.

They were stoned. They were sawed apart. They were killed with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, did not receive the promise,read more.
God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

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

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

"I know your afflictions and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.