Proverbs 15:17
Better a dinner of vegetables where there's love than eating meat with hatred.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
In Context
18Short-tempered people stir up trouble, but those slow to anger calm things down.
Cross References
Proverbs 16:8Better to have just a little and be honest than to have a lot and be dishonest.
Proverbs 21:19It's better to live in a desert than with an argumentative and bad-tempered wife.
Matthew 22:4So he sent out more servants, with the instructions, ‘Tell those who are invited that I've prepared the wedding banquet. The bulls and fattened calves have been killed—everything's ready. So come to the wedding!’
Philippians 2:1So then, if you're encouraged by being in Christ, if you're comforted by his love, if you share together in the Spirit, if you have compassion and sympathy—
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:17-18
16 Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Solomon had said in the foregoing verse that he who has not a large estate, or a great income, but a cheerful spirit, has a continual feast; Christian contentment, and joy in God, make the life easy and pleasant; now here he tells us what is necessary to that cheerfulness of spirit which will furnish a man with a continual feast, though he… Read the whole commentary →