Proverbs 15:16 Cross References

Proverbs 15:16

16: It is better to have little with fear for the LORD than to have great treasure with turmoil.

Proverbs 16:8

  1. It is better to be poor and godly than rich and dishonest.

Psalms 37:16

  1. It is better to be godly and have little than to be evil and possess much.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

  1. Those who love money will never have enough. How absurd to think that wealth brings true happiness!
  2. The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what is the advantage of wealth--except perhaps to watch it run through your fingers!
  3. People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich are always worrying and seldom get a good night's sleep.

1 Timothy 6:6

  1. Yet true religion with contentment is great wealth.

Proverbs 28:6

  1. It is better to be poor and honest than rich and crooked.

Proverbs 10:22

  1. The blessing of the LORD makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

  1. I am disgusted that I must leave the fruits of my hard work to others.
  2. And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? And yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work. How meaningless!
  3. So I turned in despair from hard work. It was not the answer to my search for satisfaction in this life.
  4. For though I do my work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, I must leave everything I gain to people who haven't worked to earn it. This is not only foolish but highly unfair.
  5. So what do people get for all their hard work?

Ecclesiastes 2:10

  1. Anything I wanted, I took. I did not restrain myself from any joy. I even found great pleasure in hard work, an additional reward for all my labors.
  2. But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.
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