59 Bible Verses about Abuse

And, they who use the world, as though they used it not to the full, - for the fashion of this world passeth away;

Now, therefore, let us be going forth unto him, outside the camp, his reproach bearing.

Be blessing them that curse you; be praying for them that wantonly insult you.

But, now, do, ye also, put them all away, - anger, wrath, baseness, defamation, shameful talk out of your mouth:

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under favour? Far be it!

Accounting - as greater riches than Egypt's treasures, the reproach of the Anointed One; for he was looking away unto the recompense.

What then shall we say? are we still to continue in sin that favour may abound?

For with adulterers, is the land filled, Yea because of cursing, cloth the land mourn, Dried up are the oases of the desert, - And, their oppression hath become wicked, And, their might is not right.

Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:

I have seen a lawless man, a tyrant, and spreading himself out, like a cedar in Lebanon;

And when a man shall smite his servant or his handmaid with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall, surely be avenged;

For ye bear with it - if anyone enslaveth you, if any devoureth, if anyone taketh, if anyone lifteth himself up, if anyone, on the face, doth smite you!

And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on,

Happy, are ye, whensoever they may reproach you and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, for my sake:

For, ye, on a footing of freedom, were called, brethren, - only, turn not your freedom into an occasion to the flesh, but, by means of your love, be serving one another;

Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;

The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up, - and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days;

Wherefore have we Fasted and thou hast not seen? Humbled our soul, and thou wouldst take no note? Lo! in the day of your fast, ye take pleasure, But all your toilers, ye drive on!

Then, are crucified with him, two robbers, - one on the right hand, and one on the left.

But, I, say unto you, Be loving your enemies, and praying for them who are persecuting you:

He that rebuketh a scoffer, getteth to himself contempt, and, he that reproveth a lawless man, getteth to himself his shame.

Even in thy thought, do not revile, the king, nor, within thy bed-chambers, revile thou the rich, - for, a bird of the heavens, might carry the voice, yea, an owner of wings, might tell the matter.

Then said Saul to his armour-bearer - Draw thy sword and pierce me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come, and pierce me through, and abuse me. But his armour-bearer was not willing, for he was sore afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell thereon.

Son of man, Prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,- Prophesy, and thou shalt say unto them, even to the shepherds - Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh - Alas! for the shepherds of Israel who have been tending, themselves, Is it not the flock that the shepherds should tend?

Moreover, not to all the words which men speak, do thou apply thy heart, - lest thou hear thine own servant reviling thee!

And, a sojourner, shalt thou not tread down neither shalt thou drive him away, - for sojourners, ye became in the land of Egypt.

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;

Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.

Most of all, however, them who go their way, after the flesh, with a coveting of defilement, and who despise, lordship, - daring! willful! before dignitaries, they tremble not, defaming,

And, the passers-by, were reviling him, shaking their heads, and saying - Aha! thou who wast pulling down the shrine, and building one in three days!

Lo, my virgin daughter, and his concubine, I must needs now bring, them, forth, and ye must humble, them, and do, unto them, what seemeth good in your own eyes, - but, unto this man, must ye not do this impious thing!

But be taking heed, lest, by any means, your right, itself, become, an occasion of stumbling, unto the weak;

Or know ye not that, your body, is, a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own; -

And, whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him, - but, whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age, or the coming.

They, were gladdening their heart, when lo! men of the city, men of the sons of the Abandoned One, beset the house round about, beating violently against the door, - and they spake unto the old man the owner of the house, saying, Bring forth the man that hath entered into thy house, that we may know him.

Devise not against thy neighbour an injury, seeing that, he, dwelleth securely by thee.

He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.

And, he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall, surely be put to death.

What, then, is my reward? that, in telling the glad-message, free of cost, I should put the glad-message, - to the end I should not use to the full my right in the glad-message.

So that, whosoever may be eating the loaf, or drinking the cup of the Lord, in an unworthy manner, shall be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.

Wherein they are taken by surprise that ye run not with them into the same overflow of riotous excess, - uttering defamation:

Who, being reviled, was not reviling again, suffering, he was not threatening, but was making surrender unto him that judgeth righteously, -

Not returning evil for evil, nor reviling for reviling, but, on the contrary, bestowing a blessing, - because, hereunto, have ye been called, in order that, a blessing, ye might inherit.

And, they who were passing by, were reviling him, shaking their heads,

As free, yet, not as a cloak of vice, holding your freedom, but, as God's servants.

Partly, indeed, because, both with reproaches and tribulations, ye were being made a spectacle, but, partly, because, into fellowship with them who were so involved, ye were brought; -

Day and night, they go round her, upon her walls, And, trouble and misery, are in her midst;

And, one of the suspended evil-doers, began to defame him - Art not, thou, the Christ? Save thyself and us!