Proverbs 15:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Better [is] little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:8 : 8 ¶ Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
  • 1 Tim 6:6 : 6 ¶ But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  • Ps 37:16 : 16 A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked.
  • Eccl 5:10-12 : 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes? 12 The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
  • Prov 10:22 : 22 ¶ The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
  • Prov 28:6 : 6 ¶ Better [is] the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [be] rich.
  • Eccl 2:10-11 : 10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 2:18-23 : 18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity. 20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil. 22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? 23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    8¶ Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

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    16A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked.

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    17Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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    23¶ The fear of the LORD [tendeth] to life: and [he that hath it] shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

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    6¶ In the house of the righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

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    1¶ Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.

  • Prov 15:15
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    15¶ All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.

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    6Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.

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    16¶ How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

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    19¶ Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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    6¶ Better [is] the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [be] rich.

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    33¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and before honour [is] humility.

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    26¶ In the fear of the LORD [is] strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

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    22¶ The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

  • Prov 13:23
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  • Eccl 7:2-3
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