Proverbs 16:28

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What does Proverbs 16:28 mean?

Proverbs 16:28 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 16:28

• Proverbs 17:9

  He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

• James 3:14-16

  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

• Romans 1:29

  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

• Proverbs 18:8

  The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

• Proverbs 6:14

  Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

• Proverbs 15:18

  A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

• 1 Timothy 6:3-5

  If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

• Genesis 3:1-13

  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: …

• Proverbs 6:19

  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

• 2 Corinthians 12:20

  For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

• 1 Samuel 24:9

  And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

• Proverbs 26:20-22

  Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

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Context

• Proverbs 16:27

  An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

• Proverbs 16:28

  A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

• Proverbs 16:29

  A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

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