39 Bible Verses about Abuse

and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away.

Therefore, let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

bless them that curse you; pray for them that abuse you.

But now do you also put away all these anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.

esteeming the reproach on account of the Christ as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he earnestly looked to the reward.

What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

For you bear it, if one enslave you, if one devour you, if one take from you, if one exalt himself, if one smite you on the face,

and labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

Blessed are you, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account.

For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Then were two robbers crucified with him; one on his right hand, and the other on his left.

But I say to you, Love your enemies: bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who insult you and persecute you:

but especially those who walk after the flesh in unclean lust, and who despise government. Presumptuous, willful men! they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries:

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying: Aha! you that destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be for given him, either in the present age, or in that which is to come.

What, then, is my reward? That, while I preach, I may make the gospel of Christ to be without charge, in order that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

Wherefore he that eats this bread, or drinks this cup of the Lord, in an improper manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

They are amazed at this that you run not with them into the same excess of debauchery, and they revile you.

When he was reviled, he did not revile again; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously.

not repaying evil for evil, nor reviling for reviling, but, on the other hand, blessing, since you know that for this end you were called, that you might inherit blessing.

And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,

as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God.

partly, while you became a public spectacle, by reproaches and afflictions: partly, while you became partakers with those who were so treated.

And one of the evil-doers that were hanged reviled him, saying: If you are the Christ, save yourself and us.