The NARROW RIGHT PATH: 2025

=>> EXAMPLES OF CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE THAT WERE POOR BUT HAD RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD:

These stories show us that poverty does not disqualify anyone from being righteous or chosen by God. In fact, God often uses the poor to shame the proud and exalt the humble.

“Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and

to inherit the kingdom He promised to those who love Him?”

— James 2:5

-- Lazarus (in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus)

Scripture: Luke 16:19–31
Status: Beggar, covered in sores, ate scraps
Righteousness: Found in Abraham’s bosom after death—symbol of comfort and eternal reward

Lesson: Though he was poor and suffering on earth, God honored him in eternity. Wealth did not equal righteousness.

-- The Prophet Elijah (During His Hiding Season)

Scripture: 1 Kings 17
Status: Fed by ravens, lived by a brook, later lived with a widow
Righteousness: Obeyed God fully even when he had almost nothing

Lesson: Obedience in poverty is still powerfully used by God. Provision came daily, not all at once.

-- Mary and Joseph (Parents of Jesus)

Scripture: Luke 2:24 (They offered two doves—a poor person’s sacrifice)
Status: Poor, unknown couple from Nazareth
Righteousness: Chosen to raise the Son of God

Lesson: God entrusted the Messiah to a humble, obedient, and righteous couple—not the rich or powerful.

-- The Early Apostles

Scripture: Acts 3:6 – “Silver and gold I do not have...”
Status: Many were poor, persecuted, and homeless
Righteousness: Carried power, healed the sick, spread the Gospel

Lesson: They had spiritual riches and authority far greater than worldly possessions.

-- John the Baptist

Scripture: Matthew 3:4
Status: Lived in the wilderness, wore camel’s hair, ate locusts and wild honey
Righteousness: Called the greatest among those born of women (Luke 7:28)

Lesson: His physical appearance and poverty were not signs of weakness—he was mighty in spirit.

-- The Poor Widow (Who Gave Two Coins)

Scripture: Luke 21:1–4
Status: Destitute; gave all she had
Righteousness: Jesus said she gave more than the rich because she gave from her lack

Lesson: God sees the heart, not the amount. Her offering was pure and honored by Christ.

-- Job (During His Time of Loss)

Scripture: Job 1–2
Status: Lost all his wealth, children, and health
Righteousness: Maintained integrity and did not curse God

Lesson: Poverty and suffering didn’t remove his righteousness—his faith remained.

=>> Verses About POOR :

(If being POOR is a "Sin or Bad", then why God wants us to help the poor contrary to those who are WICKED

which he wants us to stay away )

-- God Values the Poor and Is Close to Them

Psalm 34:6 (NIV)

“This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles.”

Psalm 72:12-13 (ESV)

“For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.”

🔹 -- God Uses Poverty to Teach Dependence on Him

Deuteronomy 8:3 (NIV)

“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna...

to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes

from the mouth of the Lord.”

🔹 3. God Can Use Poverty to Refine Character and Faith

James 2:5 (NIV)

“Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith

and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?”

🔹 4. Poverty Can Lead People to Seek God

Proverbs 30:8-9 (NIV)

“Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise,

I may have too much and disown you... or I may become poor and steal,

and so dishonor the name of my God.”

🔹 5. Jesus Himself Chose Poverty

2 Corinthians 8:9 (NIV)

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,

yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.”

🔹 6. Poverty Reminds Us of Eternal Riches

Revelation 2:9 (ESV)

“I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich)...”

🔹7. God Commands Jus tice and Generosity for the Poor

Proverbs 14:31 (NIV)

“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,

but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.”

🔹 8. God Will Ultimately Lift Up the Poor

Psalm 113:7 (NIV)

“He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.”

9. Shows Being Right With God is NOT based on WEALTH

Luke 16:19 “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. 20 And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, 21 and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

22 Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’
25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’
27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham *said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”

Summary:

God does not waste poverty. He uses it to teach humility, faith, and dependence;

to reveal injustice; and to shape His people for eternity. Poverty in Scripture is never meaningless

—it always points to God's deeper purposes, both in this life and the next.

=>> Verses About WICKED :

Psalm 1:1-6 1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the [a]path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, ………. the wicked will not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Proverbs 12:21 ESV

No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Psalm 129:4 The Lord is righteous;

He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.

Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved (e)in His heart. 7 The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the (f)sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Genesis/6/type/nasb

Psalm 101:8 Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,

So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.

Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Wickedness

Proverbs 11:21 Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished,

But the descendants of the righteous will be delivered.

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