Proverbs 17:1

Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

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Proverbs 15:16
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Proverbs 16:30
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

1 Timothy 2:2
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

1 Peter 3:4
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Psalms 37:16
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

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Proverbs 7:14
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

James 5:5
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:3
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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Judges 8:2
And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

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Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalms 51:6
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Psalms 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psalms 51:8
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Isaiah 38:15
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

2 Corinthians 7:5
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

Galatians 4:29
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

2 Timothy 3:12
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

2 Timothy 4:16
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

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Psalms 122:7
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.

Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

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Proverbs 14:17
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

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Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

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