Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.


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Hebrews 7 7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Proverbs 8 11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Ecclesiastes 7 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes 7 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
1 Peter 3 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Proverbs 16 19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Ecclesiastes 7 1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Proverbs 10 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Ecclesiastes 9 4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Romans 14 5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Proverbs 18 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Hebrews 12 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Romans 5 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Ecclesiastes 3 22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Proverbs 29 23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Proverbs 28 6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs 28 14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
Ecclesiastes 6 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Proverbs 16 20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
Proverbs 14 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Psalms 30 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Proverbs 16 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Romans 15 1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Proverbs 25 8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
1 Timothy 6 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Proverbs 26 12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
James 3 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
2 Corinthians 3 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Isaiah 55 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Luke 6 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Galatians 6 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
2 John 1 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
1 Corinthians 11 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
Proverbs 15 16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Proverbs 16 32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
2 Corinthians 3 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Proverbs 17 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs 15 13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Job 20 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
1 Corinthians 13 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Matthew 12 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Proverbs 24 17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
2 Peter 2 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Proverbs 18 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
John 12 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Isaiah 57 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Proverbs 11 2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 3 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Ecclesiastes 6 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.