Proverbs 26:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a scoundrel named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and cried out, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! Everyone to your tents, O Israel!”

1 Kings 12:20

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

Psalm 120:4

A warrior’s sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 15:18

Those who are hot-tempered stir up strife, but those who are slow to anger calm contention.

Proverbs 29:22

One given to anger stirs up strife, and the hothead causes much transgression.

Proverbs 30:33

For as pressing milk produces curds and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing anger produces strife.