Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, *Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!*'
Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
If there is therefore any exhortation in Messiah, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.