14 Bible Verses about Mental Abuse
Most Relevant Verses
Be sober, be vigilant; for your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, prowleth around, seeking whom he may devour:
No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness, idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
THERE is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls.
Therefore let him who speaketh in an unknown tongue, pray that he may interpret also.
For in the first place, when ye assemble in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
that ye be not hastily agitated with apprehension, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by discourse, nor by letter, as coming from us, as though the day of the Lord was instantly approaching.
Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.
And be not drunk with wine, in which there is sottishness, but be filled with the Spirit;
as new-born babes desire earnestly the unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
But these men speak evil even of the things of which they have no knowledge: but such things as they know naturally, as the brute beasts, in these they corrupt themselves.
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