Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like">157 [e] אֹ֣הֵֽב ’ō-hêḇ He who loves V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms 1a1) transgression (against individuals) 1a2) transgression (nation against nation) 1a3) transgression (against God) 1a3a) in general 1a3b) as recognised by sinner 1a3c) as God deals with it 1a3d) as God forgives 1a4) guilt of transgression 1a5) punishment for transgression 1a6) offering for transgression">6588 [e] פֶּ֭שַׁע pe-ša‘ transgression N-ms 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like">157 [e] אֹהֵ֣ב ’ō-hêḇ loves V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms 4683 [e] מַצָּ֑ה maṣ-ṣāh; strife N-fs 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be high, lofty, tall 1a2) to be exalted 1a3) to be lofty 1a3a) to be lofty (of Jehovah's ways-good sense) 1a3b) to be haughty, be arrogant (bad sense) 1b) (Hiphil) to make high, exalt">1361 [e] מַגְבִּ֥יהַּ maḡ-bî-ah and he who exalts V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms 6607 [e] פִּ֝תְח֗וֹ piṯ-ḥōw, his gate N-msc | 3ms 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to seek to find 1a2) to seek to secure 1a3) to seek the face 1a4) to desire, demand 1a5) to require, exact 1a6) to ask, request 1b) (Pual) to be sought">1245 [e] מְבַקֶּשׁ־ mə-ḇaq-qeš- seeks V-Piel-Prtcpl-ms 1a) breaking, fracture, shattering, crushing 1b) crashing 1c) breaking (of a dream), interpretation 1d) quarries">7667 [e] שָֽׁבֶר׃ šā-ḇer. destruction N-ms

New American Standard Bible
He who loves transgression loves strife; He who raises his door seeks destruction.

King James Bible
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
One who loves to offend loves strife; one who builds a high threshold invites injury.

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Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore …

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James 1:20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, …

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Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.

Proverbs 24:27 Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; …

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1 Kings 1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will …

Jeremiah 22:13-15 Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers …

Daniel 4:20,21 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached …

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