19 Bible Verses about Mental Abuse
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Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. Near is Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth. Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.read more.
He is keeping all his bones, One of them hath not been broken.
No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;
for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.
wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;
for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it,
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,
that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;
prophesyings despise not; all things prove; that which is good hold fast; from all appearance of evil abstain ye;
and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;
And Abishai son of Zeruiah saith unto the king, 'Why doth this dead dog revile my lord the king? let me pass over, I pray thee, and I turn aside his head.'
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