Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
General references
Bible References
Is
Proverbs 15:16
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Psalm 37:16
Tet A little that a righteous man has is better than the many riches of the sinners.
1 Timothy 6:6
But piety with contentment is great gain.
Great
Proverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable?
General references
Psalm 37:16
Tet A little that a righteous man has is better than the many riches of the sinners.
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor that walks in his perfection than he that is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful with rest than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.