¹⁷ Better `is' an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

¹ Better `is' a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

¹⁹ Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than `with' a woman of contentions and anger.

¹ A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren -- even together!

² As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,

³ As dew of Hermon -- That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing -- Life unto the age!

⁴ `Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things `are' ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;

²³ and having brought the fatted calf, kill `it', and having eaten, we may be merry,

¹ If, then, any exhortation `is' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

¹⁶ and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.