Proverbs 17:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

Proverbs 17:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
1 Samuel 25:36-38
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. …
Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

Topics

Ambition Anger Arrogance Conceit Contention Haughtiness Heart Presumption

Commentary

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

(vv. 19)

Note, 1. Those that are quarrelsome involve themselves in a great deal of guilt: He that loves strife, that in his worldly business loves to go to law, in religion loves controversies, and in common conversation loves to thwart and fall out, that is never well but when he is in the fire, he loves transgression; for a great deal of sin attends that sin, and the way of it is down-hill. He pretends t…

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

(vv. 19)

19. strife--contention is, and leads to, sin. he that exalteth his gate--gratifies a vain love of costly building. seeketh--or, “findeth,” as if he sought (compare “loveth death,” Pr 8:36).