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 Yahweh than great treasure and trouble with it.
Psalm 37:16
[The] little belonging to the righteous [is] better than [the] wealth of many wicked.
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is a great means of gain.
Great
Proverbs 21:6
He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.
Jeremiah 17:11
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Micah 6:10
Is there any longer a man [in] the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity [which is] accursed?
General references
Psalm 37:16
[The] little belonging to the righteous [is] better than [the] wealth of many wicked.
Proverbs 28:6
Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind.