32 verses contain “Poverty” (in the KJV: 24, in the BSB: 20) — showing 1–32
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And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Poverty and shame come to him who ignores discipline, but whoever heeds correction is honored.
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
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.
I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.
He that is honoured in poverty, how much more in riches? and he that is dishonourable in riches, how much more in poverty?
Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help, wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,
Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.
Riches are good unto him that hath no sin, and poverty is evil in the mouth of the ungodly.
When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger: and when thou art rich, think upon poverty and need.
Help the poor for the commandment’s sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.