The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.


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Proverbs 22 10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
Proverbs 30 33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Proverbs 25 9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
Habakkuk 1 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Proverbs 20 3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs 29 22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Deuteronomy 20 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
Proverbs 15 18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Isaiah 1 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Philippians 2 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Romans 2 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Proverbs 18 18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
Mark 13 8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Proverbs 26 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Ecclesiastes 7 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Numbers 35 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Proverbs 16 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 13 10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Luke 21 9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Jeremiah 25 31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
Leviticus 26 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
Ephesians 4 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Zephaniah 2 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
Leviticus 15 8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Proverbs 26 20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Luke 12 51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
Proverbs 25 8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Exodus 4 9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
Proverbs 26 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Matthew 24 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Psalms 55 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Proverbs 10 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Amos 5 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Numbers 19 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
Psalms 37 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Proverbs 18 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Deuteronomy 19 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
Matthew 10 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Isaiah 9 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Psalms 74 23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Numbers 33 55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Luke 11 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
Genesis 1 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Deuteronomy 25 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Mark 13 7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Proverbs 25 17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
James 3 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Leviticus 15 12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
Matthew 24 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Deuteronomy 20 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: