12 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages

But if the unbeliever departs, let him or her depart; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. God has called you in peace.

Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word;

And the Pharisees came to Him, tempting Him, and saying to Him; Is it lawful for a man to send away his wife for any cause? And He responding said to them, Have you not read, that the one having made them from the beginning made them male and female? And He said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.read more.
So they are no longer two, but one flesh: therefore what God joined together, let no man separate. They say to Him, Then why did Moses command to give a book of divorcement, and to send her away? He says to them, Moses on account of the hardness of your heart permitted you to send away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. But I say unto you, That whosoever may send away his wife, not for fornication, and may marry another, commits adultery.

But I say unto you, that every one sending away his wife, except on account of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever may marry her who has been cast off commits adultery.

Remember those bound, as having been bound along with them; those suffering persecutions, as you yourselves being also in the body.

Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.

Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath: for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

Let no corrupt communication go forth out of your mouth, but if anything is good unto edification of need, in order that he may give grace to those who hear.

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

out of the same mouth come forth blessing and scolding. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil.