Sirach 28:8-10

Good News Translation

Arguments

⁸ If you stay out of arguments, you will not sin so much, because a hot temper gets them started. ⁹ It is sinful to break up a friendship by creating hostility among people who get along well together. ¹⁰ The more fuel, the hotter the fire. The more stubbornness, the hotter the argument. And the stronger or richer people are, the angrier they can afford to become.