Verse 21

Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindle strife.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:18 : 18 A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.
• Prov 29:22 : 22 An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.
• Prov 30:33 : 33 For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.
• 2 Sam 20:1 : 1 Sheba’s Rebellion Now a wicked man named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and said,“We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, O Israel!”
• 1 Kgs 12:2-3 : 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since. 3 They sent for him, and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
• 1 Kgs 12:20 : 20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty.
• Ps 120:4 : 4 Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.
• Prov 10:12 : 12 Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.