Proverbs 15:17 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁷ Better is a meal of vegetables where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it. [Prov. 17:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Better a meal of greens with love than a plump calf with hate.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ It is better to be called to vegetables with charity, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

Proverbs 15:17 Cross References

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness, Than a large income without right-ruling.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry piece of bread and rest with it, Than a house filled with slaughters of strife.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and vexed woman.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a hand filled with rest than both hands filled with toil and feeding on wind.

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Say to those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle are slaughtered, and all is ready. Come to the wedding feast.” ’

Luke 15:23

And bring the fattened calf here and slaughter it, and let us eat and rejoice,

Philippians 2:1

If, then, there is any encouragement in Messiah, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

1 John 4:16

And we have known and believed the love that Elohim has for us. Elohim is love, and he who stays in love stays in Elohim, and Elohim in him.