Parallel Verses
- World English Bible - The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
- 新标点和合本 - 纷争的起头如水放开， 所以，在争闹之先必当止息争竞。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 纷争掀起，如同缺口的水； 因此，争端尚未爆发就当制止。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 纷争掀起，如同缺口的水； 因此，争端尚未爆发就当制止。
- 当代译本 - 争端爆发如洪水决堤， 当在爆发前将其制止。
- 圣经新译本 - 纷争的开始，如同决堤的水； 所以在争执发生以前，就要制止。
- 中文标准译本 - 纷争的开始，就如放开的水； 卷入争执之前，当放弃争辩。
- 现代标点和合本 - 纷争的起头如水放开， 所以在争闹之先必当止息争竞。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 纷争的起头如水放开， 所以在争闹之先，必当止息争竞。
- New International Version - Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.
- New International Reader's Version - Starting to argue is like making a crack in a dam. So drop the matter before a fight breaks out.
- English Standard Version - The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
- New Living Translation - Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out.
- The Message - The start of a quarrel is like a leak in a dam, so stop it before it bursts.
- Christian Standard Bible - To start a conflict is to release a flood; stop the dispute before it breaks out.
- New American Standard Bible - The beginning of strife is like letting out water, So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.
- New King James Version - The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.
- Amplified Bible - The beginning of strife is like letting out water [as from a small break in a dam; first it trickles and then it gushes]; Therefore abandon the quarrel before it breaks out and tempers explode.
- American Standard Version - The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
- King James Version - The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
- New English Translation - Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!
- 新標點和合本 - 紛爭的起頭如水放開， 所以，在爭鬧之先必當止息爭競。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 紛爭掀起，如同缺口的水； 因此，爭端尚未爆發就當制止。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 紛爭掀起，如同缺口的水； 因此，爭端尚未爆發就當制止。
- 當代譯本 - 爭端爆發如洪水決堤， 當在爆發前將其制止。
- 聖經新譯本 - 紛爭的開始，如同決堤的水； 所以在爭執發生以前，就要制止。
- 呂振中譯本 - 紛爭之起點 如 放水 ； 故爭吵尚未暴發，先要放棄。
- 中文標準譯本 - 紛爭的開始，就如放開的水； 捲入爭執之前，當放棄爭辯。
- 現代標點和合本 - 紛爭的起頭如水放開， 所以在爭鬧之先必當止息爭競。
- 文理和合譯本 - 釁端之起、如水潰決、宜先弭之、以免爭鬥、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 釁隙之開、若江河之潰、故爭競將起、必弭之。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爭端之起、如水之破隙、故爭競未發之先、當止之、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Iniciar una pelea es romper una represa; vale más retirarse que comenzarla.
- 현대인의 성경 - 다툼은 댐에 물이 새는 것처럼 사소한 데서 시작된다. 그러므로 싸움이 벌어지기 전에 미리 시비를 그치는 것이 좋다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Ссору начать – что плотину пробить; остановись, прежде чем она вспыхнет.
- Восточный перевод - Ссору начать, что плотину пробить; остановись, прежде чем она вспыхнет.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Ссору начать, что плотину пробить; остановись, прежде чем она вспыхнет.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Ссору начать, что плотину пробить; остановись, прежде чем она вспыхнет.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Commencer une querelle, c’est ouvrir une brèche dans une digue, c’est pourquoi : abandonne la partie avant qu’éclate la dispute.
- リビングバイブル - いったん火のついた争いごとは、 なかなか収まりません。 だから、初めから争いはしないことです。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Começar uma discussão é como abrir brecha num dique; por isso resolva a questão antes que surja a contenda.
- Hoffnung für alle - Ein angefangener Rechtsstreit ist so schwer aufzuhalten wie Wasserfluten, wenn der Damm einmal gebrochen ist – darum lass es gar nicht erst so weit kommen!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Tranh chấp khởi đầu như khơi nguồn nước chảy, thà nên dứt lời trước khi cãi lộn.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อเริ่มต้นวิวาทก็เหมือนทำให้เขื่อนร้าว ฉะนั้นจงหยุดโต้เถียงก่อนจะเกิดการวิวาท
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - การเริ่มทะเลาะวิวาทเปรียบเสมือนการปล่อยให้น้ำในเขื่อนไหลทะลักออกมา ดังนั้น จงหยุดการโต้แย้งก่อนที่จะเกิดการทะเลาะวิวาท
Cross Reference
- Proverbs 19:11 - The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
- 2 Chronicles 13:17 - Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter, so five hundred thousand chosen men of Israel fell down slain.
- Judges 12:1 - The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”
- Judges 12:2 - Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.
- Judges 12:3 - When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”
- Judges 12:4 - Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”
- Judges 12:5 - The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;”
- Judges 12:6 - then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.
- Genesis 13:8 - Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
- Genesis 13:9 - Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
- Proverbs 26:21 - As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
- Proverbs 16:32 - One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
- 2 Timothy 2:23 - But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
- 2 Timothy 2:24 - The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
- Acts 15:2 - Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
- Acts 15:3 - They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
- Acts 15:4 - When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.
- Acts 15:5 - But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
- Acts 15:6 - The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
- Acts 15:7 - When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
- Acts 15:8 - God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
- Acts 15:9 - He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
- Acts 15:10 - Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- Acts 15:11 - But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
- Acts 15:12 - All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
- Acts 15:13 - After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
- Acts 15:14 - Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
- Acts 15:15 - This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
- Acts 15:16 - ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up
- Acts 15:17 - that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’
- Acts 15:18 - “All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
- Acts 15:19 - Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
- Acts 15:20 - but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
- Acts 15:21 - For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
- 2 Chronicles 10:14 - and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
- 2 Chronicles 10:15 - So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
- 2 Chronicles 10:16 - When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.
- Proverbs 13:10 - Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.
- Romans 12:18 - If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
- Proverbs 14:29 - He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
- 2 Samuel 2:14 - Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
- 2 Samuel 2:15 - Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.
- 2 Samuel 2:16 - They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.
- 2 Samuel 2:17 - The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
- Acts 6:1 - Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
- Acts 6:2 - The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
- Acts 6:3 - Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
- Acts 6:4 - But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
- Acts 6:5 - These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;
- 2 Chronicles 28:6 - For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- Judges 8:1 - The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
- Judges 8:2 - He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
- Judges 8:3 - God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
- 2 Chronicles 25:17 - Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”
- 2 Chronicles 25:18 - Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
- 2 Chronicles 25:19 - You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”
- 2 Chronicles 25:20 - But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.
- 2 Chronicles 25:21 - So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 25:22 - Judah was defeated by Israel; so every man fled to his tent.
- 2 Chronicles 25:23 - Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 25:24 - He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in God’s house with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
- Proverbs 17:19 - He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
- Matthew 5:39 - But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:40 - If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.
- Matthew 5:41 - Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
- Proverbs 29:22 - An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
- Proverbs 15:1 - A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- James 3:14 - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
- James 3:15 - This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
- James 3:16 - For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
- James 3:17 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
- James 3:18 - Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
- Ecclesiastes 7:8 - Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9 - Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11 - and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
- Proverbs 25:8 - Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
- Proverbs 20:3 - It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.