12 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages

However, if the unbeliever wishes to be separated, let him be so. Under such circumstances neither the Brother nor the Sister is bound; God has called you to live in peace.

Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives,

Presently some Pharisees came up to him, and, to test him, said: "Has a man the right to divorce his wife for every cause?" "Have not you read," replied Jesus, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' And said--'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife, and the man and his wife shall become one'?read more.
So that they are no longer two, but one. What God himself, then, has yoked together man must not separate." "Why, then," they said, "did Moses direct that a man should 'serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her'?" "Moses, owing to the hardness of your hearts," answered Jesus, "permitted you to divorce your wives, but that was not so at the beginning. But I tell you that any one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of her unchastity, and marries another woman, is guilty of adultery."

I, however, say to you that any one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of her unchastity, leads to her committing adultery; while any one who marries her after her divorce is guilty of adultery.

Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.

Husbands, love your wives, and never treat them harshly.

Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord.

Mark this, my dear Brothers--Let every one be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry; For the anger of man does not forward the righteous purpose of God.

Never let any foul word pass your lips, but only such good words as the occasion demands, that they may be a help to those who hear them.

When a man appears to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue, but imposes upon his own conscience, that man's religious observances are valueless.

From the very same mouth come blessings and curses! My Brothers, it is not right that this should be so.

Let all bitterness, passion, anger, brawling, and abusive language be banished from among you, as well as all malice.