New Revised Standard Version
An ally offended is stronger than a city; such quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

Contemporary English Version
Making up with a friend you have offended is harder than breaking through a city wall.

New American Bible
A brother offended is more unyielding than a stronghold; such strife is more daunting than castle gates.

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

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

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Proverbs 6:19 My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Genesis 4:5-8 But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance fell. . . .

Genesis 27:41-45 Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob. . . .

Genesis 32:6-11 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau, thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men. . . .

Genesis 37:3-5,11,18,27 Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours. . . .

2 Samuel 13:22,28 But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar. . . .

1 Kings 2:23-25 Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do to me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his own life. . . .

1 Kings 12:16 Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.

2 Chronicles 13:17 And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.

Acts 15:39 And there arose a dissension so that they departed one from another. And Barnabas indeed, taking Mark, sailed to Cyprus.

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Proverbs 16:32 The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.