11 Bible Verses about World Poverty (KJV)

Here are 11 Bible verses about world poverty, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Luke 12:33 KJV

³³Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

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1 Timothy 6:10 KJV

¹⁰For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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Matthew 6:24 KJV

²⁴No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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Micah 6:8 KJV

⁸He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

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Matthew 11:5 KJV

⁵The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

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Proverbs 22:7 KJV

⁷The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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Mark 16:16 KJV

¹⁶He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

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Matthew 24:21-22 KJV

²¹For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. ²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

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Matthew 24:1-51 KJV

¹And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. ²And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. ³And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall …

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Isaiah 58:1-14 KJV

¹Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. ²Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. ³Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou …

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Psalm 24:1 KJV

¹The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

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