25 Bible Verses About Nagging (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.

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.

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

²¹ Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

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

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.

¹¹ A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

⁸ but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.

³¹ Do to others as you would have them do to you.

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

¹⁸ Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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

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.

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.

⁹ He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.

⁵ Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

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

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.

¹ The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases. ² All a man's ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart. ³ To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. ⁴ Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin! ⁵ The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. ⁶ A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare. ⁷ The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right. ⁸ The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright. ⁹ Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. ¹⁰ The wicked man craves evil; his neighbor gets no mercy from him. ¹¹ When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; when a wise man is instructed, he gets knowledge. ¹² The Righteous One takes note of the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin. ¹³ If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered. ¹⁴ A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath. ¹⁵ When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. ¹⁶ A man who strays from the path of understanding comes to rest in the company of the dead. ¹⁷ He who loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and oil will never be rich. ¹⁸ The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the unfaithful for the upright. ¹⁹ Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife. ²⁰ In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has. ²¹ He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. ²² A wise man attacks the city of the mighty and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust. ²³ He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity. ²⁴ The proud and arrogant man-"Mocker" is his name; he behaves with overweening pride. ²⁵ The sluggard's craving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work. ²⁶ All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing. ²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable- how much more so when brought with evil intent! ²⁸ A false witness will perish, and whoever listens to him will be destroyed forever. ²⁹ A wicked man puts up a bold front, but an upright man gives thought to his ways. ³⁰ There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD. ³¹ The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the LORD.

¹² For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double--edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.

⁵ A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. ² Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. ⁴ Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. ⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. ⁶ But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. ⁷ That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; ⁸ he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. ⁹ The brother in humble circumstances ought to take pride in his high position. ¹⁰ But the one who is rich should take pride in his low position, because he will pass away like a wild flower. ¹¹ For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will fade away even while he goes about his business. ¹² Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. ¹³ When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; ¹⁴ but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. ¹⁵ Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. ¹⁶ Don't be deceived, my dear brothers. ¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. ¹⁸ He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. ¹⁹ My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, ²⁰ for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. ²¹ Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. ²² Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. ²³ Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror ²⁴ and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ²⁵ But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. ²⁷ Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.