How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. Open rebuke is better than secret love. 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. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. 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. Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. Because Thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise Thee.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. The law of Thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and My revenue than choice silver. For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Happy is the man that findeth Wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
