17 Bible Verses about Abuse From a Spouse

Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,read more.
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also. For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.read more.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.