Proverbs 17:19

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Summary

Proverbs 17:19

He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

Loveth

James 3:14

He that

General references

Proverbs 16:18

Bible References

Loveth

The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.

When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man,

The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

He that

Pride goes before destruction,

And a haughty spirit before stumbling.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,

But humility goes before honor.

Prepare your work outside
And make it ready for yourself in the field;
Afterwards, then, build your house.

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.

Now it came about after this that Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men as runners before him.

Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” So he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen with fifty men to run before him.

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

The tree that you saw, which became large and grew strong, whose height reached to the sky and was visible to all the earth

General references

Pride goes before destruction,

And a haughty spirit before stumbling.