18 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages
Most Relevant Verses
But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.
In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live
Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?” “Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,” and He also said:
“For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh? read more.
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.” “Why then,” they asked Him, “did Moses command us to give divorce papers and to send her away?” He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts. But it was not like that from the beginning. And I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.
Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord,
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.
My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
For He has not despised or detested
the torment of the afflicted.
He did not hide His face from him
but listened when he cried to Him for help.
Learn to do what is good.
Seek justice.
Correct the oppressor.
Defend the rights of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause.
No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way.
All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.
Bible Theasaurus
- Abusive (16 instances)
- Marriages (3 instances)