18 Bible Verses about Abusive Relationships

Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;

The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.

Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man; lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.

But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of his house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he do not hear thee, take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three. But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.

But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he do not hear thee, take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three. But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.read more.
Verily I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven.

A soft answer turneth away fury; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.

But if thy right eye be a snare to thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat.

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.