Popular Bible Verses about Poverty - Page 3

Found 28 Verses (from 21)

Proverbs 28:19

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Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty. NIV

He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless people and pursuits will have poverty enough. AMP

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough. KJV

Deuteronomy 28:48

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Therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you. NIV

Therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in want of all things; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you. AMP

Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. KJV

Proverbs 23:21

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For drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags. NIV

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. AMP

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. KJV

Proverbs 20:13

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Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare. NIV

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread. AMP

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. KJV

Proverbs 28:22

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The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them. NIV

He who has an evil and covetous eye hastens to be rich and knows not that want will come upon him. [Prov. 21:5; 28:20.] AMP

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. KJV

Proverbs 24:34

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And poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man. NIV

So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man. AMP

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. KJV

Proverbs 31:7

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Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. NIV

Let him drink and forget his poverty and [seriously] remember his want and misery no more. AMP

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. KJV

Genesis 45:11

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I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.' NIV

And there I will sustain and provide for you, so that you and your household and all that are yours may not come to poverty and want, for there are yet five [more] years of [the scarcity, hunger, and starvation of] famine. AMP

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. KJV