10 Bible Verses about Spiritual Destitution

Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.

Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old.

See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need.

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.