Verse 8

Better it is to haue a litle with ryghteousnesse, then great rentes wrongfully gotten.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:16 : 16 A small thing that the righteous hath: is better then great riches of ye vngodly.
• Prov 15:16 : 16 Better is a litle with the feare of the Lorde: then great treasure, and trouble therwith.
• Mic 6:10 : 10 Are not yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abhominable?
• 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 Godlynesse is great lucre, if a man be content with that he hath. 7 For we brought nothyng into the worlde, and it is certayne that we may carry nought away. 8 But hauyng foode and rayment, we must therwith be content. 9 For they that wyll be riche, fall into temptations and snares, and into many folishe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.
• Jer 17:11 : 11 The partrich maketh a nest of egges, which she layed not: he commeth by riches, but not righteously, in the middest of his life must he leane them behynde hym, & at the last be founde a very foole.
• Prov 21:6-7 : 6 To hoorde vp riches with a deceiptfull tongue, is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death. 7 The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.