Bible Verses About Nagging
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for nagging, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,391 votes, led by Proverbs 21:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Nagging
Proverbs 21:9221 votes
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 21:19182 votes
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Proverbs 25:2494 votes
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
Ephesians 4:2993 votes
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.
Proverbs 27:1590 votes
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Proverbs 19:1361 votes
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 27:15-1645 votes
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
1 Peter 5:343 votes
Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Ephesians 6:440 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1-240 votes
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;
Colossians 3:2138 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 26:2132 votes
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Proverbs 25:1127 votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Romans 12:1025 votes
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Luke 6:3123 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
James 3:8-1023 votes
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Colossians 3:1822 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Peter 3:5-622 votes
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
Ephesians 5:22-2421 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Proverbs 20:320 votes
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
1 Timothy 5:1320 votes
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
James 1:1920 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 15:118 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
1 Peter 5:516 votes
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Ephesians 5:2415 votes
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
What does the Bible say about nagging?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 21:9 on the subject of nagging. Across 1,391 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 21:19, Proverbs 25:24, Ephesians 4:29. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.