59 Bible Verses about Abuse

and those who make use of the world as [if they] do not make full use of [it]. For the present form of this world is passing away.

So we must go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

considering {reproach endured for the sake of Christ} greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?

For the land is full [of] adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. [The] pastures of [the] desert are dry, and their evil has been their way of running, and their power [is] not right.

" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.

I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.

And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.

For you put up with [it] if someone enslaves you, if someone devours [you], if someone takes advantage of [you], if someone is presumptious [toward you], if someone strikes you in the face.

and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

A people that you do not know shall consume the harvest of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed {for the rest of your lives}.

'Why do we fast, and you do not see [it]? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice [it]?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!

Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on [his] right and one on [his] left.

But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

He who corrects a scoffer gains abuse for himself, and he who rebukes the wicked {gets hurt}.

Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, and do not curse the rich even in your own bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice; a winged messenger may repeat your words.

Then Saul said to {his armor bearer}, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised do not come and thrust me through and make a fool of me!" But {his armor bearer} [was] not willing [to do so] because he [was] very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

"Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and you must say to them, to the shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe [to] the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves! Must not the shepherds feed the flock?

Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse you.

" 'You will not mistreat an alien, and you will not oppress him, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate;

Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out; quarrel and abuse will cease.

and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust and who despise authority. Bold [and] arrogant, they do not tremble in awe [as they] blaspheme majestic beings,

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild [it] in three days,

Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please, let me bring them out; do violence to them, and do to them {whatever you please}. Do not do this disgraceful thing to this man."

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him either in this age or in the coming one!

While {they were enjoying themselves}, behold, the men of the city, {the perverse lot}, surrounded the house, pounding on the door. And they said to the old man, the owner of the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so that {we may have sex with him}."

Do not plot harm against your neighbor [who] dwells in confidence beside you.

He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.

And {whoever strikes} his father or his mother will surely be put to death.

What then is my reward? That [when I] proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel free of charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

with respect to which they are surprised [when] you do not run with [them] into the same flood of dissipation, [and so they] revile [you].

who [when he] was reviled, did not revile in return; [when] suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted [himself] to the one who judges justly,

not repaying evil for evil or insult for insult, but on the other hand blessing [others], because for this [reason] you were called, so that you could inherit a blessing.

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads

[Live] as free [persons], and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.

Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble [are] in its midst.

And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself--and us!"