Proverbs 17:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 One who loves transgression loves strife;
one who builds a high threshold invites broken bones.(A)
Proverbs 16:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 Pride goes before destruction
and a haughty spirit before a fall.(A)
Proverbs 18:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Before destruction one’s heart is haughty,
but humility goes before honor.(A)
James 3:14-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth. 15 This is not wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.(A) 16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.(B)
Read full chapter
James 1:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 for human anger does not produce God’s righteousness.[a]
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1.20 Or justice
Proverbs 29:22-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 One given to anger stirs up strife,
and the hothead causes much transgression.(A)
23 A person’s pride will bring humiliation,
but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.(B)
Proverbs 29:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 If the wise go to law with fools,
there is ranting and ridicule without relief.
Proverbs 24:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 Prepare your work outside;
get everything ready for you in the field;
and after that build your house.
Proverbs 17:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
so stop before the quarrel breaks out.(A)
1 Kings 1:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Now Adonijah son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” He prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.(A)
Read full chapter
2 Samuel 15:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Absalom Usurps the Throne
15 After this Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.(A)
Read full chapter
1 Samuel 25:36-38
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
36 Abigail came to Nabal; he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.(A) 37 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him; he became like a stone. 38 About ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
Read full chapter
2 Corinthians 12:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.(A)
Read full chapter
Daniel 4:20-21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 The tree that you saw, which grew great and strong so that its top reached to heaven and was visible to the whole earth,(A) 21 whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and which provided food for all, under which animals of the field lived and in whose branches the birds of the air had nests—
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 22:13-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
and his upper rooms by injustice,
who makes his neighbors work for nothing
and does not give them their wages,(A)
14 who says, “I will build myself a spacious house
with large upper rooms,”
and who cuts out windows[a] for it,
paneling it with cedar
and painting it with vermilion.(B)
15 Are you a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and do justice and righteousness?
Then it was well with him.(C)
Footnotes
- 22.14 Gk Vg Syr Tg: MT my windows
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.