18 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages
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But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.
Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conduct of the wives;
The Pharisees also came unto him, testing him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have you not read, that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?read more.
Therefore they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder. They said unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He said unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts allowed you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her who is put away does commit adultery.
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: For the anger of man works not the righteousness of God.
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
If any man 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 proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
