28 Bible Verses about Abusive Husbands

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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

For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence." says the LORD of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

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

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

You husbands, in like manner, 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.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

but I tell you that everyone who 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.

In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any do not obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; seeing your pure behavior in fear. Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;read more.
but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious. For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body.

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

The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, do not let man tear apart."

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

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 to peace.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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.

Do not enter into the path of the wicked. Do not walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, and do not pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on. For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.read more.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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

When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;read more.
her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.read more.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, 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 church to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 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 Christ also does the church; because we are members of his body. "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh." This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the church. Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.