18 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages
Most Relevant Verses
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.
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;
And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to loose his wife for every cause And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female, And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?read more.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate. They say to him, Why then did Moses charge to give a writing of divorce, and loose her? He says to them that Moses for your hard heart permitted you to loose your wives: and from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, That whoever should loose his wife, except for fornication, and marry another, commits adultery; and he having married the one loosed commits adultery.
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.
Remember them in bonds as bound together with them; them treated ill, as the same being in the body.
Blessings upon the head of the just one: and violence shall cover the mouth of the unjust
A fountain of life the mouth of the just one: and violence shall cover the mouth of the unjust
Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: For man s anger works not the justice of God.
For he despised not and he abhorred not the afflictions of the bumble; and he hid not his face from him, and in his crying to him he heard.
Knowing that Jehovah will do judgment to the poor one, judgment to the needy.
Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.
Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.
If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.
Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.
Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness: