18 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages

But if the unbeliever separates, he shall separate. The brother or the sister has not been bound in such things. And God has called us to peace.

Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,

And Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying to him, Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for every cause? And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh?read more.
So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, no man shall separate. They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to divorce her? He says to them, For your hard heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it did not happened this way. And I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife, not for fornication, and will marry another, commits adultery. And he who married her who has been divorced commits adultery.

But I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife apart from a matter of fornication, disposes her to commit adultery, and whoever may marry her who has been divorced commits adultery.

Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.

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

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

Blessings are upon the head of a righteous man, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

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

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.

I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.

LORD executes righteous acts, and judgments for all who are oppressed.

Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.