Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Peace » Advantages of
Better a handful - with quietness, - than both hands, full - with toil, and feeding on wind.
Better a dry morsel, and peace therewith, than a house full of contentious sacrifices.
Quietness » Encouraged
But the hidden character, of the heart, - in the incorruptible ornament of the quiet, and meek, spirit, which is, in presence of God, of great price.
Better a handful - with quietness, - than both hands, full - with toil, and feeding on wind.
And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, - even as, unto you, we gave charge -
In behalf of kings, and all them who are, in eminent station; in order that, an undisturbed, and quiet life, we may lead, in all godliness and gravity:
Better a dry morsel, and peace therewith, than a house full of contentious sacrifices.
Now, such as these, we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, - that, with quietness, working, their own bread, they be eating.
Strife » Temporal blessing embittered by
Better a dry morsel, and peace therewith, than a house full of contentious sacrifices.