39 Bible Verses about Abuse

and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

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

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who wantonly insult you.

but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

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

THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound?

For ye bear if a man enslave you, if a man eat you up, if a man receive from you, if a man is insolent, if a man smite you on the face.

and work hard, labouring with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

Blessed are ye, when they shall revile and persecute you, and lying, speak every thing evil against you for my sake.

For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.

Husbands, love your wives, and use no asperity against them.

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

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who treat you insolently, and persecute you;

especially such as walk after the flesh in the eager pursuit of defilement, and despise government. Daring, self-sufficient, they tremble not at dignities, railing against them.

And they who passed along, blasphemed him, shaking their heads, and saying, Aha! thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

But take heed that this power of yours become not an occasion of stumbling to the weak.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

And whosoever may speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may put the gospel of Christ to no expence, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

Wherefore, whosoever eateth of this bread, or drinketh the cup of the Lord unworthily, he is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

wherein they think it a strange thing, that you are not running with them into the same gulph of profligacy, spreading every scandalous report of you:

who, when reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he used no menaces; but referred himself to him who judgeth righteously:

not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, contrariwise, wishing men every blessing; knowing that hereunto ye have been called, that ye should inherit the [divine] benediction.

And they who were passing by reviled him, shaking their heads,

as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God.

partly while publicly exposed to revilings and tribulations, partly as being in communion with those who were treated in this manner.

Then one of the suspended malefactors blasphemed him, saying, If thou art the Messiah, save thyself and us.