18 Bible Verses about Abusive Relationships

Now finally, all of you should be like-minded and sympathetic, should love believers, and be compassionate and humble,

The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is a slave to the lender.

Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Better to live on the corner of a roof
than to share a house with a nagging wife.

Don’t make friends with an angry man,
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered man,
or you will learn his ways
and entangle yourself in a snare.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, that is his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

The Spirit of the Lord is on Me,
because He has anointed Me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent Me
to proclaim freedom to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to set free the oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

“If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he won’t listen, take one or two more with you, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established. If he pays no attention to them, tell the church. But if he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like an unbeliever and a tax collector to you.

“If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he won’t listen, take one or two more with you, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established. If he pays no attention to them, tell the church. But if he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like an unbeliever and a tax collector to you. read more.
I assure you: Whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven.

A gentle answer turns away anger,
but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

to slander no one, to avoid fighting, and to be kind, always showing gentleness to all people.

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.