Proverbs 17:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:41

Then the men of Israel came to the king and said, Why have our countrymen of Judah taken you away in secret and come over Jordan with the king and all his family, because all his people are David's men?

2 Chronicles 13:17

And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

2 Chronicles 28:6

For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.

Proverbs 13:10

The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

Proverbs 14:29

He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

Proverbs 15:1

By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

Proverbs 17:19

The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

Proverbs 19:11

A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.

Proverbs 20:3

It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

Proverbs 25:8

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

Proverbs 26:21

Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.

Romans 12:18

As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;