Proverbs 15:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

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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 with injustice.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’

Luke 15:23

and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;

Philippians 2:1

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

1 John 4:16

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.