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


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Deuteronomy 8 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Matthew 10 13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
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.
Ecclesiastes 4 6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
2 Timothy 2 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
Proverbs 27 7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
1 Timothy 6 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Amos 5 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Job 20 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
1 Samuel 15 22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Proverbs 5 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
2 Corinthians 5 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
Psalms 51 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Psalms 22 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
Psalms 127 1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Proverbs 11 29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Isaiah 3 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Proverbs 12 27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Proverbs 15 16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Proverbs 31 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Proverbs 16 19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Numbers 18 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Matthew 6 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Judges 19 19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
Proverbs 25 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
Lamentations 4 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Ecclesiastes 10 18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Isaiah 32 18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
Ecclesiastes 7 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Proverbs 21 9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 13 23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Psalms 37 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Amos 5 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Ecclesiastes 6 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Proverbs 15 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Leviticus 2 5 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
Jeremiah 35 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Isaiah 5 9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
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.
Ezekiel 4 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Job 3 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Luke 12 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
James 2 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Isaiah 58 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
Proverbs 17 14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Isaiah 65 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Zephaniah 1 13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Philippians 1 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
1 Timothy 6 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Psalms 44 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.