Proverbs 17:19

The Message

The person who courts sin marries trouble; build a wall, invite a burglar.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:1

As time went on, Absalom took to riding in a horse-drawn chariot, with fifty men running in front of him. Early each morning he would take up his post beside the road at the city gate. When anyone showed up with a case to bring to the king for a decision, Absalom would call him over and say, “Where do you hail from?” And the answer would come, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”

1 Kings 1:5

At this time Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, puffed himself up saying, “I’m the next king!” He made quite a splash, with chariots and riders and fifty men to run ahead of him. His father had spoiled him rotten as a child, never once reprimanding him. Besides that, he was very good-looking and the next in line after Absalom.

Proverbs 16:18

First pride, then the crash— the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.

Proverbs 17:14

The start of a quarrel is like a leak in a dam, so stop it before it bursts.

Proverbs 18:12

Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

Proverbs 24:27

First plant your fields; then build your barn.

Proverbs 29:9

A sage trying to work things out with a fool gets only scorn and sarcasm for his trouble.

2 Corinthians 12:20

I do admit that I have fears that when I come you’ll disappoint me and I’ll disappoint you, and in frustration with each other everything will fall to pieces—quarrels, jealousy, flaring tempers, taking sides, angry words, vicious rumors, swelled heads, and general bedlam. I don’t look forward to a second humiliation by God among you, compounded by hot tears over that crowd that keeps sinning over and over in the same old ways, who refuse to turn away from the pigsty of evil, sexual disorder, and indecency in which they wallow.