17Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
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.
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! …
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. Holine…
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