7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

4 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 4:6 — Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
• Jer 17:11 — As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
• Mic 6:10 — Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
• Prov 15:6 — In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
• Prov 15:16 — Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
• Prov 15:16 — Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
• 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 21:6 — The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
• 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.