Verse 8
Better is it to haue a litle thinge wt rightuousnes, the greate rentes wrongeously gotten.
Referenced Verses
- Ps 37:16 : 16 A small thinge yt the rightuous hath, is better then greate riches of the vngodly.
- Prov 15:16 : 16 Better is a litle with the feare of the LORDE then greate treasure, for they are not without sorowe.
- Mic 6:10 : 10 Shulde I not be displeased, for the vnrightuous good in the houses of the wicked, and because the measure is minished?
- 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 Howbeit it is greate avautage, who so is godly, and holdeth him content with that he hath. 7 For we broughte nothinge in to the worlde, therfore is it a playne case yt we can cary nothinge out. 8 Whan we haue fode and rayment, let vs therwith be content. 9 For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion.
- Jer 17:11 : 11 The disceatfull maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no yonge: He commeth by riches, but not rightuously. In the myddest off his life must he leaue them behinde him, and at the last be founde a very foole.
- Prov 21:6-7 : 6 Who so hoordeth vp riches wt ye disceatfulnes of his tonge, he is a foole, & like vnto them that seke their owne death. 7 The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruccion, for they wolde not do the thynge that was right.