14 Bible Verses about Abusive Relationships

And finally, all being like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brethren, merciful, humble:

Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.

But if the unbeliever departs, let him or her depart; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. God has called you in peace.

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

Likewise, ye husbands, dwelling with the wife according to knowledge, as the weaker vessel, extending to them honor, as indeed the equal heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers should not be hindered.

But if any one provides not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,

But if thy brother may sin, go, and convict him between thee and him alone: if he may hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother: if he may not hear thee, take with thyself one or two, in order that in the mouth of two or three witnesses the word may stand. But if he may not hear them, tell the church: and if indeed he may not hear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and publican.

But if thy brother may sin, go, and convict him between thee and him alone: if he may hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother: if he may not hear thee, take with thyself one or two, in order that in the mouth of two or three witnesses the word may stand. But if he may not hear them, tell the church: and if indeed he may not hear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and publican.read more.
Truly I say unto you, that whatsoever things you may bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever things you may loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

to speak evil of no one, that they should be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not that thy whole body may go away into hell.

For now I have written unto you not to keep company with him, if any one denominated a brother may be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a scold, or drunken, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.