Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
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- Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
- Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
- 2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.