Proverbs 13:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

By pride comes only contention, but with the well advised is wisdom.

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  • Jas 4:1 : 1 From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members?
  • Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns jealously? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
  • 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. 10 Therefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with that, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids those who would, and casts them out of the church.
  • Judg 8:1-3 : 1 And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you treated us this way, that you did not call us when you went to fight with the Midianites? And they argued with him sharply. 2 And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison to you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? 3 God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison to you? Then their anger was pacified toward him when he said that.
  • Judg 12:1-6 : 1 And the men of Ephraim gathered together, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire. 2 And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands. 3 And when I saw that you did not deliver me, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me? 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. 5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it happened, that when those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No; 6 Then they said to him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not pronounce it right. Then they took him, and killed him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites.
  • 1 Kgs 12:10-11 : 10 And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you speak to this people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter for us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's waist. 11 And now, whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
  • 1 Kgs 12:16 : 16 So when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.
  • 2 Kgs 14:10 : 10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up; boast of this, and stay at home, for why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, you and Judah with you?
  • Prov 12:15-16 : 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to counsel is wise. 16 A fool's wrath is immediately known, but a prudent man covers shame.
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water, therefore leave off contention before it is meddled with.
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.
  • Prov 20:18 : 18 Every purpose is established by counsel, and with good advice make war.
  • Prov 21:24 : 24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in arrogant wrath.
  • Prov 25:8 : 8 Do not go forth hastily to contend, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
  • Luke 14:28-32 : 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it? 29 Lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends an envoy and desires conditions of peace.
  • Luke 22:24 : 24 And there was also a strife among them, as to which of them should be regarded as the greatest.
  • Acts 6:1-5 : 1 In those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a complaint by the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them and said, It is not right that we should leave the word of God to serve tables. 3 Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this duty. 4 But we will devote ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word. 5 This proposal pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch.
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work.

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