Proverbs 26:21

Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

Cross References (8)

  • Proverbs 15:18 (5)

    A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.

  • Proverbs 29:22 (4)

    An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

  • 2 Samuel 20:1 (3)

    Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted

  • Proverbs 30:33 (2)

    For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings for

  • Psalms 120:4 (2)

    Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

  • Proverbs 10:12 (2)

    Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

  • 1 Kings 12:20 (2)

    When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. O

  • 1 Kings 12:2–3 (2)

    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been livi