Proverbs 20:3

Proverbs chapter 20 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.

King James Version · 1611

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

American Standard Version · 1901

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.

v.2The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.

v.3This passage

v.4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

James 3:14
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
James 4:1
Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Proverbs 14:17
He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated.
Ephesians 4:32
and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 16:32
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool’s lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.