Proverbs 13:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Proverbs 13:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 12:15-16
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. …
Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
1 Timothy 6:4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …

Topics

Ambition Anger Arrogance Conceit Contention Haughtiness Heart Presumption

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10)

Note, 1. Foolish pride is the great make-bate. Would you know whence come wars and fightings? They come from this root of bitterness. Whatever hand other lusts may have in contention (passion, envy, covetousness), pride has the great hand; it is its pride that it will itself sow discord and needs no help. Pride makes men impatient of contradiction in either their opinions or their desires, impatie…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. The obstinacy which attends self-conceit, produces contention, which the well-advised, thus evincing modesty, avoid.