Proverbs 15:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 with injustice.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, Than an house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is an handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and striving after wind.

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, Behold, I have made ready my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are 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

If there is therefore any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

1 John 4:16

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.