Proverbs 21:19 KJV It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Proverbs 26:21 KJV As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. Proverbs 27:15 KJV A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. Contention is not the behavior we should have: 1 Corinthians 11:16 KJV But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 1 Peter 3:1-13 KJV 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; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in ...