Poor Family Shares a Meal of Herbs and BreadBible World
15:17Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is present than a rich meal of a stalled ox and abundance accompanied by hatred. The simple meal does not need to be plentiful or specially prepared, because love itself makes it sufficient. Genuine love and trust are wholehearted, without reservations or withheld confidence.
Wealth and worldly prospects cannot make a marriage happy when love and the fear of God are absent, because affection matters more than abundance. Even if health reform involved privation, a humble condition with the love of God in the heart is better than plenty accompanied by spiritual poverty. A poor meal of vegetables and a little meat can be sweeter than abundance, because love and faith make the home rich. Love, not fine furniture or costly surroundings and not an elegant table, makes a home, so a simple meal where love reigns is better than elegance where hatred and contention are present.
A loving welcome matters more than an elaborate meal, so even a simple dish offered cordially and cheerfully is better than abundant food without warmth and hospitality. A plain meal shared with love is better than a luxurious meal accompanied by hatred or unkind words, and loving words and expressions of affection that make love known are better than silence or words that dwell on faults even when those words are true. A modest meal enjoyed in peace is better than a rich meal accompanied by conflict, because what makes a person truly rich and happy is not the amount of possessions but God's blessing and the enjoyment of what one has. A crust or humble meal shared in love is better than abundance accompanied by hatred, and is preferable to living in dishonor or to a life gained or maintained through dishonor.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is present than a rich meal of a stalled ox and abundance accompanied by hatred.
The simple meal does not need to be plentiful or specially prepared, because love itself makes it sufficient.
Genuine love and trust are wholehearted, without reservations or withheld confidence.
Wealth and worldly prospects cannot make a marriage happy when love and the fear of God are absent, because affection matters more than abundance.
Even if health reform involved privation, a humble condition with the love of God in the heart is better than plenty accompanied by spiritual poverty.
A poor meal of vegetables and a little meat can be sweeter than abundance, because love and faith make the home rich.
Love, not fine furniture or costly surroundings and not an elegant table, makes a home, so a simple meal where love reigns is better than elegance where hatred and contention are present.
A loving welcome matters more than an elaborate meal, so even a simple dish offered cordially and cheerfully is better than abundant food without warmth and hospitality.
A plain meal shared with love is better than a luxurious meal accompanied by hatred or unkind words, and loving words and expressions of affection that make love known are better than silence or words that dwell on faults even when those words are true.
A modest meal enjoyed in peace is better than a rich meal accompanied by conflict, because what makes a person truly rich and happy is not the amount of possessions but God's blessing and the enjoyment of what one has.
A crust or humble meal shared in love is better than abundance accompanied by hatred, and is preferable to living in dishonor or to a life gained or maintained through dishonor.