What does the Bible say about nagging husband?
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The Bible calls husbands to forsake harsh, faultfinding, and controlling speech and to love their wives with patient, sacrificial gentleness. Colossians 3:19 commands husbands not to be harsh, while 1 Peter 3:7 urges them to live considerately with their wives and honor them as fellow heirs of grace. Ephesians 5:25-33 sets Christ's self-giving love for the church as the pattern for marital love, which seeks a wife's good rather than demanding compliance. Proverbs warns that continual quarreling damages a home, and Ephesians 4:2-3 commends humility, patience, and eager peace. By God's grace, a husband should repent of nagging and pursue truthful, tender, prayerful communication.
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- 1 Peter 3:7 8 votes
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
- Colossians 3:19 7 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
- Proverbs 21:19 7 votes
It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
- Proverbs 27:15 7 votes
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
- Proverbs 21:9 6 votes
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- Proverbs 25:24 6 votes
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
- 1 Peter 3:1-2 4 votes
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word, seeing your pure behavior in fear.
- Proverbs 19:13 4 votes
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
- Ephesians 5:25-33 3 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect. Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly, because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.” This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly. Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
- Ephesians 4:2-3 3 votes
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love, being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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