7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Tim 6:6 — But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• 1Tim 6:6 — But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Eccl 2:18 — Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
• Eccl 4:6 — Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
• Eccl 5:10 — He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
• Isa 33:6 — And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
• Luke 12:15 — And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
• Prov 10:22 — The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
• Prov 15:6 — In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
• Prov 16:8 — Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
• Prov 16:8 — Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
• Prov 19:1 — Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
• Prov 23:17 — Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
• Prov 28:6 — Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
• Ps 37:16 — A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
• Ps 37:16 — A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
• Ps 119:141 — I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.