Proverbs 18:19
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New International Version (©1984)
An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.

New Living Translation (©2007)
An offended friend is harder to win back than a fortified city. Arguments separate friends like a gate locked with bars.

English Standard Version (©2001)
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, And contentions are like the bars of a citadel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
An offended brother is more [resistant]than a strong city, and disputes are like the locked gate of a castle tower.

King James Bible
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

American King James Version
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

American Standard Version
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; And'such contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Bible in Basic English
A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities.

Darby Bible Translation
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace.

English Revised Version
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and such contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Webster's Bible Translation
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

World English Bible
A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

Young's Literal Translation
A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.

Geneva Study Bible

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the {n} bars of a castle.

(n) Which for the strength of it will not bow or yield.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. No feuds so difficult of adjustment as those of relatives; hence great care should be used to avoid them.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:19. Great care must be taken to prevent quarrels among relations and those under obligations to each other. Wisdom and grace make it easy to forgive; but corruption makes it difficult. 20. The belly is here put for the heart, as elsewhere; and what that is filled with, our satisfaction will be accordingly, and our inward peace. 21. Many a one has caused his own death, or the death of others, by a false or injurious tongue. 22. A good wife is a great blessing to a man, and it is a token of Divine favour. 23. Poverty tells men they must not order or demand. And at the throne of God's grace we are all poor, and must use entreaties. 24. Christ Jesus never will forsake those who trust in and love him. May we be such friends to others, for our Master's sake. Having loved his own, which were in the world, he loved them unto the end; and we are his friends if we do whatever he commands us, Joh 15:14.


Proverbs 18:18 The cast lot puts an end to strife And decides between the mighty ones.
Proverbs 18:20 With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be satisfied; He will be satisfied with the product of his lips. (NASB ©1995)

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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

brother 6:19 Ge 4:5-8 27:41-45 32:6-11 37:3-5,11,18,27 2Sa 13:22,28 1Ki 2:23-25 12:16 2Ch 13:17 Ac 15:39

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