As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.


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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.
Psalms 97 3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
Psalms 83 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
Proverbs 29 22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
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.
2 Samuel 22 13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
Psalms 18 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Isaiah 47 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
Deuteronomy 32 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Isaiah 9 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Proverbs 15 18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Isaiah 44 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
Psalms 29 7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
Ezekiel 22 20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
Psalms 140 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Job 5 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
1 Corinthians 3 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Proverbs 17 14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Song of Solomon 8 6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Job 41 21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Proverbs 26 20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Matthew 3 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Ecclesiastes 10 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Isaiah 54 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Luke 3 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Ezekiel 24 11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
Proverbs 16 27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Isaiah 33 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
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.
Exodus 22 6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Jeremiah 6 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Habakkuk 3 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
Isaiah 42 3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Romans 12 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Ezekiel 15 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
Job 41 19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
Isaiah 50 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Jeremiah 51 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Proverbs 14 17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Jeremiah 15 14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
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 42 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Proverbs 16 29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
Hebrews 6 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Matthew 12 20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Amos 7 4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
Proverbs 16 28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Isaiah 66 15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Job 41 20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.