Verse 19

He who loves transgression loves strife, and he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.

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  • Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  • 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 18:12 : 12 Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
  • Prov 24:27 : 27 Prepare your work outside, and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterward build your house.
  • Prov 29:9 : 9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.
  • Prov 29:22-23 : 22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression. 23 A man's pride will bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
  • Jer 22:13-15 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work; 14 Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
  • Dan 4:20-21 : 20 The tree that you saw, which grew and was strong, whose height reached unto heaven, and its sight to all the earth, 21 whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the birds of the heaven had their habitation,
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you wish not; lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
  • Jas 1:20 : 20 For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
  • 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.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. 37 But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. 38 And it came about ten days later that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died.
  • 2 Sam 15:1 : 1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared himself 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 for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.