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Prov. 17:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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James 3:16• ¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (James 3:16)

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Prov. 17:14• ¹⁴The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. (Prov. 17:14)

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Prov. 29:9,22• ⁹If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
²²An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression. (Prov. 29:9,22)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For 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: (2 Cor. 12:20)

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James 1:20• ²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. (James 1:20)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (James 3:14‑16)

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Prov. 16:18• ¹⁸Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. (Prov. 16:18)

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Prov. 18:12• ¹²Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility. (Prov. 18:12)

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Prov. 24:27• ²⁷Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. (Prov. 24:27)

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1 Sam. 25:36‑38• ³⁶And 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.
³⁷But 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.
³⁸And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died. (1 Sam. 25:36‑38)

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2 Sam. 15:1• ¹And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him. (2 Sam. 15:1)

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1 Kings 1:5• ⁵Then 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. (1 Kings 1:5)

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Jer. 22:13‑15• ¹³Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
¹⁴That 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.
¹⁵Shalt 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? (Jer. 22:13‑15)

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Dan. 4:20‑21• ²⁰The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;
²¹Whose 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: (Dan. 4:20‑21)

• There are those who delight in contention, and who thereby manifest their love for their own ways, being impatient of restraint. In their haughtiness, they make high their gates, thus inviting destruction; for, exalting themselves, they are near to a fall. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He loveth transgression that loveth a quarrel; he that maketh high his gate seeketh destruction.