Cross references

Proverbs 26:21

Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire,

so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

Proverbs 26:21 BSB

Proverbs 26:21 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 15:18 (5 votes) and Proverbs 29:22 (5 votes). 13 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from 1 Samuel 24 to James 3.

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Which verses does Proverbs 26:21 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.

  2. An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

  3. Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”

  4. When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since. So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

  5. When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

  6. Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

  7. Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

  8. For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings forth strife.”

Which verses point to Proverbs 26:21?

The 10 strongest of 13.