Proverbs 26:21

New International Version

As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted, “We have no share in David, no part in Jesse’s son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”

1 Kings 12:20

When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.

Psalm 120:4

He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom bush.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.

Proverbs 15:18

A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.

Proverbs 30:33

For as churning cream produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.”