17 Bible Verses about Abuse From a Spouse

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence, he hates.

Continue to remember those in prison as if you were in prison with them, as well as those who are mistreated, since they also are only mortal.

But if the unbelieving partner leaves, let him go. In such cases the brother or sister is not under obligation. God has called you to live in peace.

You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good, read more.
traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people. For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires. These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit.

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.

(Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.)

"Indeed, the LORD God of Israel says that he hates divorce, along with the one who conceals his violence by outward appearances," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "So guard yourselves carefully, and don't be unfaithful."

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate."

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it, so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word, and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault. read more.
In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, as the Messiah does the church.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred.

And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people.

But I say to you, any man who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

Rescue those who are being led away to death, and save those who stumble toward slaughter.

In a similar way, you husbands must live with your wives in an understanding manner, as with a most delicate partner. Honor them as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing may interfere with your prayers.