Okay, wives, I"m not letting up on you tonight. Wish I could, but it seems pretty clear that this is an important issue in creating an environment of peace.
Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 25:24
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
No, that is not a typo. You read that correctly. Twice in the book of Proverbs we have the same passage. Not just pretty similar idea, the same. Admittedly, I haven't read it in the original, if you have please let us know, but when you check the different versions, they still match.
If the previous verses we discussed on Days 19 and 20 say it is better to live in the desert than with a nagging wife and compare a nagging wife to a leaking roof, and twice we read it would be better to live outside on the roof than in a (many translations indicate large) house with a nagging wife, can we really deny the need to address this in ourselves?
Remember, moms, what you model becomes acceptable to your sons. Would you be happy to hear a daughter-in-law talk to your son like you talk to your husband?
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