12 Bible Verses about Being Poor

The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; bringeth low, and heaveth up on high.

Remove from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches, only grant me a necessary living.

It is a man's worship to do good; and better it is to be a poor man, than a dissembler.

The rich man's goods are his stronghold; but poverty oppresseth the poor.

that they may drink it, and forget their misery and adversity.

for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee.

But if he be not able to bring a sheep, then let him bring for his trespass which he hath sinned, two turtle doves or two young pigeons unto the LORD; one for a sin offering and another for a burnt offering.

But and if she be not able to bring a sheep, then let her bring two turtles or two young pigeons: the one for the burnt offering, and the other for the sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"

"'And yet if he be not able to bring two turtle doves or two young pigeons, then let him bring his offering for his sin: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering, but put none oil thereto neither put any frankincense thereon, for it is a sin offering.

If he be poor and can not get so much, then let him bring one lamb for a trespass offering to wave it and to make an atonement for him, and a tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil,

The rich shall not pass, and the poor shall not go under, half a sicle; when they give a heave offering unto the LORD for the atonement of their souls.

This is the law of him that hath the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing."