Quotes about Poverty
If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
— Leviticus 25:25
If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
— Leviticus 25:39
There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD will surely bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,
— Deuteronomy 15:4
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 15:7
For 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 15:11
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
— Deuteronomy 24:12
You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
— Deuteronomy 24:15
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
— Joshua 9:5
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
— 1 Samuel 2:5
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
— 1 Samuel 2:7
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
— 1 Samuel 2:8
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
— Job 5:5