39 Bible Verses about Abuse

and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

Bless those who curse you, pray for those who calumniate you.

But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.

He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

You put up with it, though they make slaves of you, live on you, seize your property, lord it over you, even strike you in the face, in the way of degradation!

Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.

"Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

Husbands, be loving to your wives, and be not cross or surly with them.

At that time two robbers, also, were crucified with him; one on his right hand, the other on his left.

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

especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and willful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities;

And the passers-by kept jeering at him, wagging their heads and saying. "Ah! you who were to 'destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,' save yourself!

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

"And if any man say a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in that which is to come.

What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

So he that eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthy must answer for a sin against the body and blood of the Lord.

They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.

He was reviled, and reviled not back. When he suffered he never threatened but always committed his cause to the One who judges rightly.

not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called??o inherit a blessing.

Those who passed by reviled him, wagging their heads saying.

Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

partly by being made a public spectacle in reproaches and afflictions, and partly by sharing the fortunes of those that were so used.

And one of the criminals who had been hung there kept reviling him, saying. "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us."