Bible Verses about “being poor”

“"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.”

“Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”

“The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.”

“He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.”

“"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.”

“"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”

“Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?”

“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."”

“If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;”

“but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.”

“He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.”

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

“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”

“Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.”

“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.”

“This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.”

“Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."”

“For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,”

“For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.”

“They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].”

“and laid them at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.”

“Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,”

“Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;”

“he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.”