Proverbs 26:21

Tree of Life Version

As coals are to embers and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindling strife.

Cross References

Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirs up dissention, and a hotheaded one commits many transgressions.

Proverbs 15:18

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.

Proverbs 30:33

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

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife but love covers up all transgressions.

Psalm 120:4

sharp arrows of the mighty, with burning coals of a broom tree!

1 Kings 12:20

Now when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a worthless fellow happened to be there, a Benjamite named Sheba son of Bichri. He blew the shofar and said, “We have no portion in David, no inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to his tents, O Israel!”