19 Verses About Poverty from 6 Books

2 Corinthians 8:2

how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

2 Corinthians 8:9

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

Genesis 45:11

There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'

Luke 21:4

for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."

Mark 12:44

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."

Proverbs 6:11

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

Proverbs 10:15

The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.



Proverbs 11:24

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

Proverbs 14:23

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Proverbs 20:13

Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 21:5

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Proverbs 24:34

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.



Proverbs 28:19

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

Proverbs 31:7

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

Revelation 2:9

"I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.





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