Nagging
8 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 - Ephesians 4:29
Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
Read it in context - 1 Peter 5:3
not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
Read it in context - Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read it in context - Proverbs 27:15–16
15A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike— 16restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
Read it in context - Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
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