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Bible Verses about Poverty

  • Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
  • I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.
  • Speak out, judge righteously,
    defend the rights of the poor and needy.
  • In all toil there is profit,
    but mere talk leads only to poverty.
  • Give justice to the weak and the orphan;
    maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.
  • As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
  • The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
    he brings low, he also exalts.
  • In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise.”
  • Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
  • The rich rules over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
  • Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  • This poor soul cried, and was heard by the Lord,
    and was saved from every trouble.
  • Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
    give me neither poverty nor riches;
    feed me with the food that I need.
  • Wealth is a ransom for a person's life,
    but the poor get no threats.
  • What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
    and it is better to be poor than a liar.
  • Because I delivered the poor who cried,
    and the orphan who had no helper.
    The blessing of the wretched came upon me,
    and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
  • If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
  • The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    because he has anointed me
    to bring good news to the poor.
    He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
    and recovery of sight to the blind,
    to let the oppressed go free.
  • The spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
    because the Lord has anointed me;
    he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
    to bind up the brokenhearted,
    to proclaim liberty to the captives,
    and release to the prisoners.
  • Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
    do not forget the oppressed.

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