1. BETTER IS a dry morsel with quietness than a house full of feasting [on offered sacrifices] with strife.
2. A wise servant shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall share in the inheritance among the brothers.
3. The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tries the hearts. [Ps. 26:2; Prov. 27:21; Jer. 17:10; Mal. 3:3.]