28 Bible Verses about Abusive Husbands

Be subject (obedient) (subordinate) to one another in reverence of Christ.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.

I hate divorce and he who covers his garment with violence,' said Jehovah, the God of Israel. Jehovah of Hosts declares: 'Guard yourselves and do not deal treacherously.'

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

In the same way, you husbands live with your wives in an understanding way. Honor the woman as the weaker vessel. For you are joint-heirs of the grace of life. May your prayers not be hindered (cut-off) (blocked).

He said to the woman: I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.

The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life. Aggression comes from the mouth of the wicked.

I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also commits adultery.

In like manner, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. Even if your husband does not obey God's word, he may be won without a word by observing the way you live. Your husband could see your chaste behavior coupled with respect (reverence). Your appearance should not come from the outward adornment, things like braiding the hair, and wearing jewels of gold, or wearing fine apparel.read more.
Let your appearance be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit. This is of great value in the sight of God. The holy women of old, who hoped in God, adorned themselves this way, being submissive to their own husbands. Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You are her children now, if you do what is right and are not fearful.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body.

Jehovah tests (examines) righteous and wicked people alike. He hates wicked people and the ones who love violence.

Jehovah God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined together, let no man pull apart (separate)!

That which God has joined together let not man take apart (separate).

If the unbelieving leave, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases for God has called us to peace.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body. The congregation is subject to Christ. Likewise let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

You should be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also forgave you through (by means of) Christ.

When it is possible, be peaceable with all men.

Do not enter the path of the wicked. Do not walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it! Do not pass by it. Turn away from it, and pass on! They do not sleep unless they have done evil. Their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.read more.
They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

If you do not deliver those who are condemned to death,

When a man marries a woman and later decides he does not love her because he found something he does not like about her he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house. She leaves his house and becomes another man's wife. If the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,read more.
her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife. She has been defiled. That is an abomination before Jehovah, and you shall not bring sin on the land Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance.

Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine. They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God will not be (defamed) dishonored.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body. The congregation is subject to Christ. Likewise let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.read more.
Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it. This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word. So he will be able to present the congregation to himself as a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It should be holy and without blemish. In this way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself. No man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also does the congregation. And we are members of his body! For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and will stick (adhere) (cleave) (be joined) to his wife. The two will become one flesh. This secret is great! I speak with regard to Christ and of the congregation. Each one of you should love his own wife even as himself. The wife should respect her husband.

The congregation is subject to Christ. Likewise let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

He went with them to Nazareth. He remained subject to them. His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.