Proverbs 15:17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

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 wife.

1 John 4:16

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

Philippians 2:1

If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy,

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’

Luke 15:23

And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate;

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with quiet than two handfuls with toil, and a chasing after wind.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice.