Bible Verses about Poverty

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• Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
  Matthew 19:21blamelessgivingmaterialism
• I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
  Philippians 4:12contentmentfoodlife
• Open your mouth, judge righteously,
  and serve justice to the poor and needy.
  Proverbs 31:9righteousnessspeakinggiving
• In all hard work there is profit,
  but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
  Proverbs 14:23reliabilityspeakingencouragement
• Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
  Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
  Psalm 82:3orphansneighborrighteousness
• As sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
  2 Corinthians 6:10sadnessjoymoney
• Yahweh makes poor and makes rich.
  He brings low, he also lifts up.
  1 Samuel 2:7moneyalmightyhumility
• He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
  Luke 3:11materialismgivingneighbor
• Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
  Zechariah 7:9-10evilrighteousnessneighbor
• The rich rule over the poor.
  The borrower is servant to the lender.
  Proverbs 22:7moneydebtslavery
• This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him,
  and saved him out of all his troubles.
  Psalm 34:6listeningprayersalvation
• Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  Romans 8:35lovesufferingpersecution
• Remove far from me falsehood and lies.
  Give me neither poverty nor riches.
  Feed me with the food that is needful for me.
  Proverbs 30:8materialismfoodmoney
• The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
  but the poor hear no threats.
  Proverbs 13:8moneymaterialismfear
• Because I delivered the poor who cried,
  and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
  the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me,
  and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
  Job 29:12-13widowsorphanssinging
• That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness.
  A poor man is better than a liar.
  Proverbs 19:22reliabilitymoneygoodness
• If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
  1 Corinthians 13:3lovesufferinggiving
• The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
  because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
  He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,
  to proclaim release to the captives,
  recovering of sight to the blind,
  to deliver those who are crushed.
  Luke 4:18Spiritevangelismfreedom
• The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
  because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble.
  He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
  to proclaim liberty to the captives
  and release to those who are bound.
  Isaiah 61:1Spirithoperedeemer
• Arise, Yahweh!
  God, lift up your hand!
  Don’t forget the helpless.
  Psalm 10:12prayerneighbor