Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.
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