19 Bible Verses about Mental Abuse

Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth them, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The LORD is nigh unto them that are contrite in heart, and will save such as be of a humble spirit. Great are the troubles of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of all.read more.
He keepeth all his bones, so that not one of them is broken.

There hath none other temptation taken you, such as followeth the nature of man. God is faithful, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above your strength: but shall in the midst of the temptation make a way to escape out.

and ye shall know the truth: And the truth shall make you free."

The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, lawing, zeal, wrath, strife, sedition, sects, envying, murder, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like. Of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past, that they which commit such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

There is, then, no damnation to them which are in Christ Jesus: which walk not after the flesh but after the spirit:

Consider therefore how that he endured such speaking against him of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.

Wherefore, let him that speaketh with tongues, pray: that he may interpret also.

First of all, when ye come together in the congregation, I hear that there is dissension among you: And I partly believe it.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

that ye be not suddenly moved from your mind, and be not troubled; neither by spirit, neither by words, nor yet by letter, which should seem to come from us, as though the day of Christ were at hand.

despise not prophesying. Examine all things, and keep that which is good. Abstain from all suspicious things.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be fulfilled with the spirit,

And again he denied with an oath that he knew the man.

and as newborn babes desire that reasonable milk which is without corruption, that ye may be grown therein.

The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge; but as for the words of the despiteful, he bringeth them to naught.

But these speak evil of those things which they know not. In those things which they know naturally - as beasts which are without reason - they corrupt themselves.

Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, "Why doth this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go and take off the head of him."

For Cain shall be avenged sevenfold: but Lamech seventy times sevenfold."