20 Bible Verses about

Poverty

Proverbs 14:23 BSB

There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Proverbs 6:11 BSB

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

Proverbs 24:34 BSB

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

Proverbs 31:7 BSB

Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Luke 21:4 BSB

For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

1 Samuel 2:7 BSB

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

Job 30:3 BSB

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

2 Corinthians 8:2 BSB

In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.

Mark 12:44 BSB

For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

2 Corinthians 8:9 BSB

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

Revelation 2:9 BSB

I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.