19 Bible Verses about Mental Abuse
Most Relevant Verses
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down. Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.read more.
He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.
Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.
For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.
For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.
O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.
That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;
Do not make little of the words of the prophets; Let all things be tested; keep to what is good; Keep from every form of evil.
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge, but by him the acts of the false man will be overturned.
But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.
Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king, Is this dead dog to go on cursing my lord the king? let me go over and take off his head.
If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.
Bible Theasaurus
- Mental (9 instances)