Poverty

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Proverbs 6:11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
• Proverbs 10:15 The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
• Proverbs 15:16 Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.
• Proverbs 16:8 Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.
• Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
• Proverbs 20:13 Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
• Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
• Proverbs 24:33–34 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
• Proverbs 28:19 The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
• Proverbs 30:8–9 Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion. Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

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