Proverbs 17:14

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The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Cross References

Proverbs 25:8

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Proverbs 20:3

Honor goes to the person who stops a quarrel strife, but any fool can start one.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to seek to lead a quiet life, to manage your own affairs, and to work with your* own hands, just as we instructed y’all,

Proverbs 15:1

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Romans 12:18

If possible, as far as it depends on y’all, be at peace with all humans.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry person stirs up strife, and a wrathful person commits many sin.

Proverbs 26:21

Like charcoal to embers, and wood to fire, is a contentious person to kindling strife.

Proverbs 17:19

The one who loves disobedience loves strife. Whoever builds a high gate seeks destruction.

Proverbs 16:32

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 14:29

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Proverbs 13:10

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

2 Chronicles 28:6

For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken YHWH, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 13:17

Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.

2 Samuel 19:41

Suddenly, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

Proverbs 19:11

The insight of a person makes them slow to anger. It is their glory to overlook an offense.