12 Bible Verses about Being Poor
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The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:
The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.
The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.
Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.
If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.
And if he has not money enough for a lamb, then let him give, for his offering to the Lord, two doves or two young pigeons; one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering.
And if she has not money enough for a lamb, then let her take two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burned offering and the other for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away her sin and she will be clean,
But if he has not enough money for two doves or two young pigeons, then let him give, for the sin he has done, the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, for a sin-offering; let him put no oil on it, and no perfume, for it is a sin-offering.
And if he is poor and not able to get so much, then he may take one male lamb as an offering for wrongdoing, to be waved to take away his sin, and one tenth part of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.
This is the law for the man who has the disease of the leper on him, and who is not able to get that which is necessary for making himself clean.
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