Proverbs 17:19

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”

He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. “ ‘ “Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’

Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.

All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”