Proverbs 15:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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 great revenues without right.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Matthew 22:4

Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

Luke 15:23

and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

Philippians 2:1

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

1 John 4:16

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.