Proverbs 17:14

17:14 Starting a quarrel is like letting out water;

stop it before strife breaks out!

Proverbs 18:6

18:6 The lips of a fool enter into strife,

and his mouth invites a flogging.

Proverbs 30:33

30:33 For as the churning of milk produces butter

and as punching the nose produces blood,

so stirring up anger produces strife.

Proverbs 30:2

30:2 Surely I am more brutish than any other human being,

and I do not have human understanding;

Proverbs 2:14-16

2:14 who delight in doing evil,

they rejoice in perverse evil;

2:15 whose paths are morally crooked,

and who are devious in their ways;

2:16 to deliver you from the adulteress,

from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;

Proverbs 2:1-2

Benefits of Seeking Wisdom

2:1 My child, if you receive my words,

and store up my commands within you,

2:2 by making your ear attentive to wisdom,

and by turning your heart to understanding,

Proverbs 14:8-12

14:8 The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way,

but the folly of fools is deception.

14:9 Fools mock at reparation,

but among the upright there is favor.

14:10 The heart knows its own bitterness,

and with its joy no one else can share.

14:11 The household of the wicked will be destroyed,

but the tent of the upright will flourish.

14:12 There is a way that seems right to a person,

but its end is the way that leads to death.

Luke 14:31-32

14:31 Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 14:32 If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.