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First: Genesis 29:19 · Last: 2 Peter 2:21
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- Proverbs 19:22KJV.20.019.022
The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 21:9KJV.20.021.009
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 25:7KJV.20.025.007
For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 25:24KJV.20.025.024
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 27:5KJV.20.027.005
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 27:10KJV.20.027.010
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Research this verse → - Proverbs 28:6KJV.20.028.006
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 2:24KJV.21.002.024
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 3:22KJV.21.003.022
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?
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 4:3KJV.21.004.003
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 4:6KJV.21.004.006
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 4:9KJV.21.004.009
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 4:13KJV.21.004.013
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 5:5KJV.21.005.005
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 6:3KJV.21.006.003
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.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 6:9KJV.21.006.009
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 6:11KJV.21.006.011
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 7:1KJV.21.007.001
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 7:2KJV.21.007.002
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.
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Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 7:8KJV.21.007.008
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 7:10KJV.21.007.010
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 8:15KJV.21.008.015
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 9:4KJV.21.009.004
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 9:16KJV.21.009.016
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 9:18KJV.21.009.018
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Research this verse → - Ecclesiastes 10:11KJV.21.010.011
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Research this verse → - Song of Solomon 1:2KJV.22.001.002
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Research this verse → - Song of Solomon 4:10KJV.22.004.010
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Research this verse → - Isaiah 56:5KJV.23.056.005
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Research this verse → - Lamentations 4:9KJV.25.004.009
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.
Research this verse → - Ezekiel 36:11KJV.26.036.011
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Research this verse → - Daniel 1:20KJV.27.001.020
And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
Research this verse → - Hosea 2:7KJV.28.002.007
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
Research this verse → - Amos 6:2KJV.30.006.002
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
Research this verse → - Jonah 4:3KJV.32.004.003
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Research this verse → - Nahum 3:8KJV.34.003.008
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
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