Proverbs 3:30
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30 Don’t bring charges against anyone for no reason.
They have not harmed you.
Proverbs 10:12
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12 Hate stirs up fights.
But love erases all sins by forgiving them.
Proverbs 13:10
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10 Where there is arguing, there is pride.
But those who take advice are wise.
Proverbs 15:18
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18 A person with a bad temper stirs up conflict.
But a person who is patient calms things down.
Proverbs 16:28
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28 A twisted person stirs up conflict.
Anyone who talks about others separates close friends.
Proverbs 17:14
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14 Starting to argue is like making a crack in a dam.
So drop the matter before a fight breaks out.
Proverbs 17:19
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19 The one who loves to argue loves to sin.
The one who builds a high gate is just asking to be destroyed.
Proverbs 18:19
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19 A broken friendship is harder to handle than a city with high walls around it.
And arguing is like the locked gates of a mighty city.
Proverbs 20:3
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3 Avoiding a fight brings honor to a person.
But every foolish person is quick to argue.
Proverbs 21:19
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19 It is better to live in a desert
than to live with a nagging wife who loves to argue.
Proverbs 22:10
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10 If you drive away those who make fun of others, fighting also goes away.
Arguing and unkind words will stop.
Proverbs 25:8
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8 don’t bring too quickly to court.
What will you do in the end
if your neighbor puts you to shame?
Proverbs 26:4-5
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4 Don’t answer a foolish person in keeping with their foolish acts.
If you do, you yourself will be just like them.
5 Answer a foolish person in keeping with their foolish acts.
If you do not, they will be wise in their own eyes.
Proverbs 26:17
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17 Don’t be quick to get mixed up in someone else’s fight.
That’s like grabbing a stray dog by its ears.
Proverbs 26:20-21
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20 If you don’t have wood, your fire goes out.
If you don’t talk about others, arguing dies down.
21 Coal glows, and wood burns.
And a person who argues stirs up conflict.
Proverbs 29:22
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22 An angry person stirs up fights.
And a person with a bad temper commits many sins.
Proverbs 30:33
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33 If you churn cream, you will produce butter.
If you twist a nose, you will produce blood.
And if you stir up anger, you will produce a fight.”
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