Bible verses about Poverty
Verses about poverty and the call to generosity, justice and trust in God.
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
Deuteronomy 15:7Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
Deuteronomy 15:8For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
Deuteronomy 15:11This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
Psalms 34:6But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
Psalms 40:17For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
Psalms 72:12Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Psalms 82:3He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
Psalms 113:7Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Proverbs 14:31He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 17:5Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
Proverbs 19:17The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
Proverbs 22:2A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 22:9Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
Proverbs 28:6Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Isaiah 58:7“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:3For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
Matthew 25:35And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
Matthew 25:40“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
Luke 4:18Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 6:20For 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.
2 Corinthians 8:9Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
James 2:5