Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
He who loves fighting loves transgression; he who makes his gate high seeks ruin.
New American Standard Bible
He who
King James Version
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Holman Bible
one who builds a high threshold invites injury.
International Standard Version
The person who loves transgression loves strife; the person who builds a high gate invites destruction.
A Conservative Version
He loves transgression who loves strife. He who raises high his gate seeks destruction.
American Standard Version
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: He that raiseth high his gate seeketh destruction.
Amplified
He who loves transgression loves strife and is quarrelsome;
He who [proudly] raises his gate seeks destruction [because of his arrogant pride].
Bible in Basic English
The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
Darby Translation
He loveth transgression that loveth a quarrel; he that maketh high his gate seeketh destruction.
Julia Smith Translation
He loving transgression loves contention: he lifting up his gate seeks breaking.
King James 2000
He who loves transgression loves strife: and he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He that loveth strife, delighteth in sin; and whoso setteth his door too high, seeketh after a fall.
NET Bible
The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction.
New Heart English Bible
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
A lover of transgression, is one who loveth strife, he that heighteneth his door, seeketh grievous harm.
Webster
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
World English Bible
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.
Themes
Contentiousness » The contentious spirit
Destruction » Who seeks destruction
Dissention » The contentious spirit
Exaltation » Of self » Self-exaltation, the folly of
Exaltation » Those that exalt themselves
Strife » Those that love strife
Strife » Evidences a love of transgression
The lord seeking that which was lost » Who seeks destruction
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 17:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
18 A man lacking heart strikes hands; he pledges in the presence of his friend. 19 He who loves fighting loves transgression; he who makes his gate high seeks ruin. 20 He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a crooked tongue falls into mischief.
Phrases
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Cross References
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 feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. And she did not tell him anything, more or less, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 15:1
And it happened after this, Absalom prepared himself chariots and horses and fifty men to run before him.
1 Kings 1:5
And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king. And he prepared himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is like letting out water; therefore leave off fighting, before it breaks out.
Proverbs 18:12
Before shattering, the heart of man is proud, and before honor is humility.
Proverbs 24:27
Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your 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
An angry man stirs up fighting, and a furious man abounds in sin.
Jeremiah 22:13-15
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
Daniel 4:20-21
The tree that you saw, which became great and strong, whose height reached to the heaven, and the sight of it to all the earth;
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;
James 1:20
For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.
James 3:14-16
But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.