Bible Verses About Poverty

"Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity."

"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich."

"therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you."

"The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom."

"All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”"

"They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”"

"and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man."

"The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor."

"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty."

"He who ignores discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored."

"All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty."

"The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty."

"He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty."

"and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man."

"He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty."

"A stingy man is eager to get rich and is unaware that poverty awaits him."

"Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread."

"let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."

"I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan."

"The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts."