10 Bible Verses about Spiritual Destitution
Most Relevant Verses
For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,
We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.
"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land-- not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.
And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.
remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
