10 Bible Verses about Domestic Violence

Most Relevant Verses

Deuteronomy 22:13-19

If any man shall take a wife, and went in to her and hated her, And he set pretexts of words against her, and brought up an evil name upon her, and said, I took this woman, and I shall come near to her, and I found in her not a virgin: And the father of the young girl took, and her mother, and brought the signs of virginity of the young girl to the elders of the city to the gate:read more.
And the father of the maiden said to the old men, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife and he will hate her, And behold, he set up pretexts of words, saying, I found not in thy daughter the signs of virginity; and these the signs of my daughter's virginity. And they spread the garment before the old men of the city. And the old men of that city took the man and chastised him; And they amerced him a hundred of silver, and gave to the father of the maiden, for he brought out an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be to him for a wife; he shall not be able to send her away all his days.

Deuteronomy 24:1

When a man shall take a wife and he married her, and it was if she shall find not favor in his eyes because he found in her a nakedness of the word: and he wrote for her a writing of cutting off, and gave in her hand, and sent her away from his house.

Matthew 5:31-32

And it was said, That whosoever should loose his wife, let him give her a repudiation. But I say to you, That whosoever shall let go his wife except for the reason of adultery, makes her to commit adultery; and whosoever should marry her having been loosed, commits adultery.

Ephesians 5:21-33

Yielding obedience to one another in the fear of God. Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.read more.
But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless. So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself. For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church. But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

Ephesians 6:1-4

Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;) That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth.read more.
And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.

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