Proverbs 17:1

Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

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Proverbs 15:16
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

Proverbs 16:30
One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,

2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

1 Timothy 2:2
for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

1 Peter 3:4
but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.

Psalms 37:16
Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

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Proverbs 7:14
“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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Judges 8:2
He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

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Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Psalms 51:6
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Psalms 51:8
Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Psalms 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

Isaiah 38:14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

Isaiah 38:15
What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

Galatians 4:29
But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

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

Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

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Proverbs 14:17
He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

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

Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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