Bible verses about "quarrelsome" | BBE

²² Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. ²⁴ And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things. ²⁵ Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶ So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete. ²⁸ Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself: ²⁹ For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church; ³⁰ Because we are parts of his body. ³¹ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. ³² This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church. ³³ But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

¹ This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work. ² The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher; ³ Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money; ⁴ Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour; ⁵ For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God? ⁶ Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One. ⁷ And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One. ⁸ Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world; ⁹ Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin. ¹⁰ And let these first be put to the test; then let them become Deacons if there is nothing against them. ¹¹ Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things. ¹² Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well. ¹³ For those who have done good work as Deacons get for themselves a good position and become free from fear in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ I am writing these things to you, though I am hoping to come to you before long; ¹⁵ But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true. ¹⁶ And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

¹⁵ Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

² The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

²⁴ For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,

²⁴ It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

¹ What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

²⁴ For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong, ²⁵ Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge, ²⁶ And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

¹⁹ It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.