Proverbs 15:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Proverbs 15:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Philippians 2:1
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Psalms 133:1-3
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-17)

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 has but little in the world—holiness and love. I. Holiness…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. dinner--or, “allowance” (2Ki 25:30)-- of herbs--and that the plainest. and hatred--(compare Pr 10:12, 18).