12 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages
Most Relevant Verses
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace.
Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be won by the conduct of their wives,
And the Pharisees came to him to tempt him, and said to him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?read more.
So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man put asunder. They said to him: Why, then, did Moses command us to give a bill of divorce and put her away? He said to them: Moses, on account of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. But I say to you, That whoever puts away his wife, unless for lewdness, and marries another, commits adultery; and he that marries her that is put away, commits adultery.
But I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, unless on account of lewdness, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever marries her that is divorced, commits adultery.
Remember those who are in bonds, as if you yourselves had been bound, and those who suffer affliction, since you yourselves are in the body.
So, then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man produces not the righteousness of God.
Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:
If any one among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be.
Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:
