Proverbs 17:19

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:18 : 18 ide goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
  • Prov 18:12 : 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
  • Prov 24:27 : 27 epare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
  • Prov 29:22-23 : 22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression. 23 A man's ide shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
  • Jer 22:13-15 : 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; 14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
  • Dan 4:20-21 : 20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; 21 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
  • Jas 1:20 : 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
  • 2 Sam 15:1 : 1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
  • 1 Kgs 1:5 : 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

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