28 Bible Verses about Abusive Husbands

Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God.

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.

Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it;

For he hated sending away, says Jehovah God of Israel: and he covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of armies: and ye watched in your spirit, and ye shall not deal faithlessly.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.

Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord.

Men, likewise, dwelling together according to knowledge, as showing honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not cut off.

To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

A fountain of life the mouth of the just one: and violence shall cover the mouth of the unjust

But I say to you, That whosoever shall let go his wife except for the reason of adultery, makes her to commit adultery; and whosoever should marry her having been loosed, commits adultery.

Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word; Having beheld in fear your pure turning back. Whose outside let it not be of the interweaving of hairs, and of putting round of gold, or of putting on of garments, the arrangement;read more.
But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price. For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands: (As Sara listened to Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are,) doing good, and not fearing any terror.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Jehovah will try the just one: and the unjust and him loving violence, his soul hated.

And Jehovah God will say, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make for him a help as before him.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.

What therefore God yoked together, let not man separate.

And if the unbelieving is separated, let him be separated. A brother or a sister has not been reduced to slavery in such things as these: and God has called us in peace.

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

If possible of you, living peaceably with all men.

In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked. Reject it, thou shalt not pass in it; turn aside from it and pass by. For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.read more.
For they ate the bread of injustice, and they will drink the wine of violences:

If thou shalt refrain to deliver those being brought to death, and those going to be slain;

When a man shall take a wife and he married her, and it was if she shall find not favor in his eyes because he found in her a nakedness of the word: and he wrote for her a writing of cutting off, and gave in her hand, and sent her away from his house. And she shall go out of his house, and go and was to another man. And the last man hated her and wrote for her a writing of cutting off, and gave in her hand, and sent her away from his house; or if the last man shall die which took her to him for a wife,read more.
Her first husband who sent her away shall not be able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife after that she was defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance.

The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good; That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children, Of sound mind chaste, remaining at home, good subordinates to their own husbands, that the word of God be not defamed.

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.read more.
Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless. So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself. For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church. But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

And he went dawn with them, and came to Nazareth, and was placed under them : and his mother kept all these words in her heart.