Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Peace » Advantages of
Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind.
Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled [with] feasts of strife.
Quietness » Encouraged
but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable [quality] of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God.
Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind.
and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
on behalf of kings and all those who are in authority, in order that we may live a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled [with] feasts of strife.
Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.
Strife » Temporal blessing embittered by
Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled [with] feasts of strife.