17 Poverty Bible Verses

"Because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them. The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing."

"Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless."

"A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes."

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?"

"This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles."

"Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything."

"You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

"What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar."

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

"And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind."

"As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?"

"When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me."

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender."

"If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?"

"John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”"

"I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”"