THEOSISProverbs 16:28Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.
אִ֣ישׁ תַּ֭הְפֻּכוֹת יְשַׁלַּ֣ח מָד֑וֹן וְ֝נִרְגָּ֗ן מַפְרִ֥יד אַלּֽוּף׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 17:9He that concealeth a transgression, seeketh friendships: he that repeateth it again, separateth friends.
- Rom 1:29Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,
- Prov 15:18A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.
- Prov 18:8The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.
- Jas 3:14But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.
- Jas 3:16For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work.
- Prov 6:14With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.
- 1 Tim 6:3If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to godliness,