14 Bible Verses about Mental Abuse

Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.

No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.

and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free."

Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery; enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, intrigues, dissensions, factions, envyings; hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

Therefore, if you would escape becoming weary and faint-hearted, compare your own sufferings with those of Him who endured such hostility directed against Him by sinners.

Therefore let a man who has the gift of tongues pray for the power of interpreting them.

for, in the first place, when you meet as a Church, there are divisions among you. This is what I am told, and I believe that there is some truth in it.

not readily to become unsettled in mind or troubled--either by any pretended spiritual revelation or by any message or letter claiming to have been sent by us--through fancying that the day of the Lord is now here.

Do not think meanly of utterances of prophecy; but test all such, and retain hold of the good. Hold yourselves aloof from every form of evil.

Do not over-indulge in wine--a thing in which excess is so easy--

Again he denied it with an oath. "I do not know the man," he said.

Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation;

Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know nothing, and in things which, like the brutes, they understand instinctively--in all these they corrupt themselves.