Proverbs 17:19 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁹ He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ He loveth transgression that loveth strife: And he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ He who loves strife and is quarrelsome loves transgression and involves himself in guilt; he who raises high his gateway and is boastful and arrogant invites destruction.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ He loveth transgression that loveth strife: He that raiseth high his gate seeketh destruction.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Those who love an offense love a quarrel; those who build a high doorway invite a collapse.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Whoever dwells on discord loves disputes. And whoever exalts his door seeks ruin.

Proverbs 17:19 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 15:1

It happened after this, that Avshalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

1 Kings 1:5

Then Adoniyahu the son of Chaggit exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 17:14

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

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no shalom.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

James 1:20

for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.