Proverbs 20:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ It is honorable to refrain from strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: But every fool will be meddling.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ It is an honor for a man to cease from strife and keep aloof from it, but every fool will quarrel.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.

Common English Bible

³ It is honorable to back off from a fight, but fools jump right in.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Honor is for the man who separates himself from contentions. But all the foolish meddle in altercations.

Proverbs 20:3 Cross References

Proverbs 16:32

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so stop before the quarrel breaks out.

Ephesians 4:32

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Proverbs 19:11

Those with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 14:29

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

James 4:1

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?

Proverbs 18:6

A fool’s lips bring strife, and a fool’s mouth invites a flogging.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

Proverbs 21:24

The proud, haughty person, named Scoffer, acts with arrogant pride.

Proverbs 14:17

One who is quick-tempered acts foolishly, and the schemer is hated.

2 Kings 14:9

King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.

Genesis 13:7

Thus strife arose between the herders of Abram’s livestock and the herders of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land.

Genesis 13:8

Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me and between your herders and my herders, for we are kindred.

Proverbs 26:17

Like someone who takes a passing dog by the ears is one who meddles in the quarrel of another.