19 Bible Verses about Mental Abuse

Be serious! Be alert! Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.

The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears,
and delivers them from all their troubles.
The Lord is near the brokenhearted;
He saves those crushed in spirit. Many adversities come to the one who is righteous,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.
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He protects all his bones;
not one of them is broken.

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus,

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart.

Therefore the person who speaks in another language should pray that he can interpret.

For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.God, hear my voice when I complain.
Protect my life from the terror of the enemy.

not to be easily upset in mind or troubled, either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter as if from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has come.

Don’t despise prophecies,
but test all things.
Hold on to what is good.
Stay away from every kind of evil.

And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:

And again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man!”

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

The Lord’s eyes keep watch over knowledge,
but He overthrows the words of the treacherous.

But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.

Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut his head off!”

If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,
then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!