Bible verses by topic / Poverty
The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.
All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.
Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.
Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.
Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
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.