Verse 3

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
  • Prov 18:6 : 6 The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.
  • Prov 19:11 : 11 The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory `is' to pass over transgression.
  • Prov 14:29 : 29 Whoso is slow to anger `is' of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.
  • Prov 16:32 : 32 Better `is' the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.
  • 2 Kgs 14:9 : 9 And Jehoash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, `The thorn that `is' in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that `is' in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that `is' in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.
  • Prov 14:17 : 17 Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.
  • Prov 21:24 : 24 Proud, haughty, scorner `is' his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.
  • Prov 25:8-9 : 8 Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush? 9 Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not, 10 Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.
  • Eph 1:6-8 : 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved, 7 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, 8 in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
  • Eph 4:32-5:1 : 32 and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you. 1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?