18 Bible Verses about Abusive Relationships

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

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

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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

Do not befriend a hot-tempered man, and do not associate with one who harbors anger: lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to hear the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to hear the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.read more.
Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

And if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Do not even eat with such a person.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.