19 Bible Verses about Mental Abuse
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Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.
The righteous cry, and Jehovah heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit. Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all:read more.
He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.
No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion, envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
There is then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
Wherefore let him that speaks with a tongue pray that he may interpret.
For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it.
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Hear, O God, my voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy:
that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.
do not lightly esteem prophecies; but prove all things, hold fast the right; hold aloof from every form of wickedness.
And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,
The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge; but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful.
But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.
And Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
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