Proverbs 20:3

Young's Literal Translation 1898

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

Cross References

Genesis 13:7

and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite are then dwelling in the land.

Genesis 13:8

And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we are men--brethren.

2 Kings 14:9

And Jehoash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, `The thorn that is in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that is in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.

Proverbs 14:17

Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

Proverbs 14:29

Whoso is slow to anger is of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.

Proverbs 16:32

Better is the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

Proverbs 18:6

The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

Proverbs 19:11

The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory is to pass over transgression.

Proverbs 21:24

Proud, haughty, scorner is his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

Proverbs 26:17

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, Is a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

Ephesians 4:32

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

James 3:14

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

James 4:1

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?