THEOSISProverbs 15:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
ט֤וֹב אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְאַהֲבָה־שָׁ֑ם מִשּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס וְשִׂנְאָה־בֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 17:1Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.
- Prov 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
- Phil 2:1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:
- Matt 22:4Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.
- 1 John 4:16And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him.
- Ps 133 (132):1
- Ps 133 (132):3
- Luke 15:23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat and make merry: