39 Bible Verses about Abuse

and they that possess this world, as those that can't make an ill use of it. for the scene of this world is continually shifting. I would have you free from anxiety.

let us therefore decamp, and bear the reproach of following his example:

and pray for those, who maliciously abuse you.

but now renounce them all, as well as anger, animosity, malice: let calumny and obscene discourse be banish'd from your lips.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the gospel?

esteeming the sufferings of Israel greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had an eye to the reward.

Do we then conclude thus, let us continue in sin, that the divine favour may be more fully display'd?

if a man impose upon you, if he preys upon you, if he makes a gain of you, if a man insults you, if he disgracefully assaults you, I mean it as to their reproaches, you take it all;

we are fatigu'd by our manual toil: when reviled, we pray: when persecuted, we don't repine:

Blessed shall you be when men shall revile and persecute you, and falsely charge you with all manner of evil for your attachment to me.

for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate them.

At the same time, two robbers were crucified with him: one on his right hand, the other on his left.

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who traduce you, and persecute you:

especially those, who prostitute themselves to sensual infamous passions: who despise magistrates, who being audacious, and insolent, intrepidly calumniate the higher powers;

besides the people that pass'd by, shook their heads, and impiously said: ah, you that can destroy the temple, and rebuild it in three days,

but take care that this liberty of yours does not prove a scandal to the weak.

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

shall not be forgiven them. and if any one speaks against the son of man, it may be forgiven him: but if any one speaks against the holy spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that to come.

whence then is my reward? why, from my preaching the gospel of Christ gratis, without making use of the privilege which the gospel gives me.

so that whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup without respect to the Lord, does make a criminal use of the body and blood of the Lord.

As they think it strange, that you don't concur in the same profusion of luxury, they traduce you.

who, when he was reviled, did not revile again: when he was in his sufferings, he did not threat, but referr'd his cause to the righteous judge.

don't return evil for evil, nor calumny for calumny; on the contrary, bestow your benedictions, considering that your vocation obliges you thereto, as a means to obtain the divine blessing.

the passengers all the while reviling him, shook their heads at him,

men. You are free, don't let your liberty serve as a pretext for vice: but act as the servants

some of you being expos'd to publick obloquy and persecution: whilst others had their share of affliction in seeing such treatment.

Now one of the malefactors, that was crucified with him, impiously said, if thou art the Christ, save thy self, and us.