Proverbs 17:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁹ He who loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ He loveth transgression that loveth strife: And he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ He who loves strife and is quarrelsome loves transgression and involves himself in guilt; he who raises high his gateway and is boastful and arrogant invites destruction.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ He loveth transgression that loveth strife: He that raiseth high his gate seeketh destruction.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Those who love an offense love a quarrel; those who build a high doorway invite a collapse.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Whoever dwells on discord loves disputes. And whoever exalts his door seeks ruin.

Proverbs 17:19 Krydshenvisninger

2 Samuel 15:1

After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

1 Kings 1:5

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

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that perhaps I may come and find you not what I wish, and that you may find me not what you wish; that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

James 1:20

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