25 Bible Verses About Nagging Wife (NIV)

⁹ Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

¹⁹ Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife.

¹⁵ A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day;

²⁴ Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

¹³ A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

¹ Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, ² when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

⁴ A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. ²² Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." ³² This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

¹⁵ A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day; ¹⁶ restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.

¹⁰ A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. ¹¹ Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. ¹² She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. ¹³ She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. ¹⁴ She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. ¹⁵ She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls. ¹⁶ She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. ¹⁷ She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. ¹⁸ She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night. ¹⁹ In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers. ²⁰ She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy. ²¹ When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet. ²² She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple. ²³ Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land. ²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes. ²⁵ She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. ²⁶ She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. ²⁷ She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. ²⁸ Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ²⁹ "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." ³⁰ Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. ³¹ Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

²² Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.

⁵ For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, ⁶ like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

¹ The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

³ not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

¹⁰ To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. ¹¹ But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

²² He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD.

¹ Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. ² Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips. ³ Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both. ⁴ Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? ⁵ Better is open rebuke than hidden love. ⁶ Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. ⁷ He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet. ⁸ Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. ⁹ Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel. ¹⁰ Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you- better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away. ¹¹ Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart; then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt. ¹² The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. ¹³ Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman. ¹⁴ If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse. ¹⁵ A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day; ¹⁶ restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand. ¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. ¹⁸ He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored. ¹⁹ As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man. ²⁰ Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man. ²¹ The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives. ²² Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him. ²³ Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; ²⁴ for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations. ²⁵ When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in, ²⁶ the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field. ²⁷ You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls.

²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

¹³ No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

¹⁰ Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.

¹ Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, ² older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

⁴ Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

²⁹ Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

²⁵ The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; ²⁶ it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

³⁷ Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'