18 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages
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But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called youto peace.
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?" He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?read more.
So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?" He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery."
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
