Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
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- Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
- Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
- 2 Samuel 20:1 There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”