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Proverbs 15:17
Proverbs 15:17 is verse 17 of Proverbs chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
King James Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
World English Bible
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
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Proverbs 15:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
16 Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.
17 Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
18 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
19 The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 17:1Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Psalms 133:1Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
Psalms 133:2It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron’s beard over the collar of his robes.
Psalms 133:3It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
Philippians 2:1Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
1 John 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.