Proverbs 15:17

Modern English Version

Better is a meal of herbs where love is than a fattened calf with hatred.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without justice.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry crust with quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to live in the wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and angry wife.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a full hand of quietness than handfuls of toil and a chasing after wind.

Matthew 22:4

“Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited: See, I have prepared my supper. My oxen and fattened calves are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

Luke 15:23

Bring here the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry.

Philippians 2:1

If there is any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any compassion and mercy,

1 John 4:16

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.