Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.
Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.
But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death. The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
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