Proverbs 19:1

A Conservative Version

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:6

Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in [his] ways, though he be rich.

Matthew 16:26

For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little, with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

Proverbs 19:22

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.

Proverbs 20:7

A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.

Proverbs 15:16

Better is little with the fear of LORD, than great treasure and trouble with it.

Proverbs 14:2

He who walks in his uprightness fears LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Psalm 37:26

All the day long he deals graciously, and lends, and his seed is blessed.

Proverbs 12:26

A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

Psalm 26:11

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

1 Samuel 25:25

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord whom thou sent.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what thou will do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house. For he is such a worthless fellow that [a man] cannot speak to him.

Proverbs 4:24

Put away from thee a wayward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee.