Proverbs 15:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Better is a dinner of greene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith.

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  • Prov 17:1 : 1 Better is a dry morsell, if peace be with it, then an house full of sacrifices with strife.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and angry woman.
  • Matt 22:4 : 4 Againe hee sent foorth other seruants, saying. Tell them which are bidden, Beholde, I haue prepared my dinner: mine oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all thinges are readie: come vnto the mariage.
  • Luke 15:23 : 23 And bring the fat calfe, and kill him, & let vs eate, and be merie:
  • Phil 2:1 : 1 If there be therfore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of loue, if any felowship of the Spirit, if any compassion and mercie,
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we haue knowen, & beleeued ye loue that God hath in vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, & God in him.
  • Ps 133:1-3 : 1 A song of degrees or Psalme of Dauid. Beholde, howe good and howe comely a thing it is, brethren to dwell euen together. 2 It is like to the precious oyntment vpon the head, that runneth downe vpon the beard, euen vnto Aarons beard, which went downe on the border of his garments: 3 And as the dew of Hermon, which falleth vpon the mountaines of Zion: for there the Lord appointed the blessing and life for euer.

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    12 Hatred stirreth vp contentions: but loue couereth all trespasses.

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  • Prov 25:16-17
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