39 Bible Verses about Abuse

And those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.

Therefore let us go out to him 'outside the camp,' bearing the same reproaches as he;

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

You, however, must now lay aside all such things--anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse.

What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!

For he counted 'the reproaches that are heaped upon the Christ' of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, looking forward, as he did, to the reward awaiting him.

What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied?

You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face!

We work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,

Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

Husbands, love your wives, and never treat them harshly.

At the same time two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right, the other on the left.

I, however, say to you--Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads, as they said: "Ah! you who 'destroy the Temple and build one in three days,

But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?

Whoever speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in the present age, or in the age to come.

What is my reward, then? To present the Good News free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.

Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood.

And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.

He was abused, but he did not answer with abuse; he suffered, but he did not threaten; he entrusted himself to him whose judgments are just.

never returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, blessing. It was to this that you were called--to obtain a blessing!

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads as they said:

Act as free men, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.

Sometimes, in consequence of the taunts and injuries heaped upon you, you became a public spectacle; and sometimes you suffered through having shown yourselves to be the friends of men who were in the very position in which you had been.

One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us," he said.