Bible Verses about “nagging”
The Bible contains 13 verses about nagging across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
“¶ Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;”
“Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.”
“While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with fear.”
“Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”
“¶ [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.”
“¶ [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.”
“¶ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.”
“¶ [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.”
“¶ A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.”
“[As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife.”
“Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].”