17 Bible Verses about Abuse From a Spouse
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Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.
Remember the prisoners, as [though you were] fellow-prisoners; [remember] the mistreated, as [though] [you] yourselves also are being [mistreated] in the body.
But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. The brother or the sister is not bound in such [cases]. But God has called us in peace.
But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come, for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,read more.
traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God, maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these [people]. For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires, always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. And {just as} Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified concerning the faith.
--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.
"For hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and he [who] covers his clothing [with] violence," says Yahweh of hosts. "{You must be attentive to} your spirit and you must not be unfaithful."
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her; in order that he might sanctify her by cleansing [her] with the washing of water by the word; in order that he might present to himself the church glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such [thing], but that she may be holy and blameless.read more.
Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ [does] the church,
All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness.
Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Rescue those who are led away to the death and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back,
Husbands, in the same way live with [your wives] {knowledgeably}, as with the weaker female vessel, showing [them] honor as fellow heirs also of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
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- A Good Husband
- Abusive Husbands
- Abusive Marriages
- Abusive Relationships
- Adulterers
- Adultery and Divorce
- Anger And Forgiveness
- Annulment
- Being A Husband
- Being A Women
- Bitterness