Proverbs 17:19
Transgression loves him that loves strife, and he that exalts his gate seeks destruction.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
1 Samuel 25:36-38
And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a banquet in his house like the banquet of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken; therefore, she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 15:1
And it came to pass after this that Absalom prepared himself chariots and horses and fifty men to run before him.
1 Kings 1:5
Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying, I will reign, and he prepared chariots and horsemen for himself and fifty men to run before him.
Proverbs 17:14
To release the waters (to speak rashly) is the beginning of contention; therefore, leave off strife before it gets started.
Proverbs 18:12
Before being broken, the heart of man is haughty, and before coming into honour, comes being brought to humility.
Proverbs 24:27
Prepare thy work without and make it fit for thyself in thine inheritance, and afterwards thou shalt build thine house.
Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.
Proverbs 29:22-23
The angry man stirs up strife, and the furious man abounds in transgression.
Jeremiah 22:13-15
Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!
Daniel 4:20-21
The tree that thou didst see, which grew and made himself strong, whose height reached unto the heaven and the sight thereof to all the earth;
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I desire and that I shall be found unto you such as ye desire not, lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, rumours, tumults,
James 1:20
for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.
James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.