Nagging Wife
10 passages
- Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Read it in context - Proverbs 21:19
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Read it in context - Proverbs 27:15
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
Read it in context - Proverbs 25:24
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Read it in context - Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Read it in context - 1 Peter 3:1–2
1Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives 2when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.
Read it in context - Proverbs 12:4
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
Read it in context - Proverbs 11:22
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Read it in context - 1 Peter 3:5–6
5For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands, 6just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.
Read it in context - Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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