Nagging

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

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—

…restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.

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