Proverbs 15:17
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17 Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is
than a fatted ox and hatred with it.(A)
Proverbs 17:1
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17 Better is a dry morsel with quiet
than a house full of feasting with strife.(A)
Proverbs 21:19
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19 It is better to live in a desert land
than with a contentious and fretful wife.
1 John 4:16
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16 So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
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Philippians 2:1
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Imitating Christ’s Humility
2 If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit, any tender affection and sympathy,(A)
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Matthew 22:4
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4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’(A)
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Psalm 133
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Psalm 133
The Blessedness of Unity
A Song of Ascents.
1 How very good and pleasant it is
when kindred live together in unity!(A)
2 It is like the precious oil on the head,
running down upon the beard,
on the beard of Aaron,
running down over the collar of his robes.(B)
3 It is like the dew of Hermon,
which falls on the mountains of Zion.
For there the Lord ordained his blessing,
life forevermore.(C)
Luke 15:23
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23 And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate,
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