Proverbs 17:1

Proverbs 17:1
Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

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Judges 8:2
And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?

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Psalms 37:16
The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

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Psalms 51:5
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Psalms 51:6
Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

Psalms 51:7
Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

Psalms 51:8
Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

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Psalms 88:18
You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

Isaiah 38:14
I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

Isaiah 38:15
What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

Romans 8:36
As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.

Galatians 4:29
But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.

2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Timothy 4:16
At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.

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Psalms 122:7
May peace be inside your walls, and wealth in your noble houses.

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Proverbs 1:32
For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

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Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

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Proverbs 14:17
He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

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Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

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Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

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Proverbs 21:9
It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

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Proverbs 21:19
It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

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