Bible verse
A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
Proverbs 22:1 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 22.
1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
2 The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
3 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.
4 The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
5 Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
KJV
A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches, [and] loving favour rather than silver and gold.
ASV
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, And loving favor rather than silver and gold.
ERV
A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
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