39 Bible Verses about Abuse

and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.

Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, sharing the insults directed against Him.

bless those who curse you; pray for those who revile you.

But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin--angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse--so that these may never soil your lips.

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

because he deemed the reproaches which he might meet with in the service of the Christ to be greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his gaze on the coming reward.

To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?

For you tolerate it, if any one enslaves you, lives at your expense, makes off with your property, gives himself airs, or strikes you on the face.

Homes we have none. Wearily we toil, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we bear it patiently;

"Blessed are you when they have insulted and persecuted you, and have said every cruel thing about you falsely for my sake.

You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love.

Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.

At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one at His right hand and the other at His left.

But I command you all, love your enemies, and pray for your persecutors;

and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;

And all the passers-by reviled Him. They shook their heads at Him and said, "Ah! you who were for destroying the Sanctuary and building a new one in three days,

But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?

And whoever shall speak against the Son of Man may obtain forgiveness; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, neither in this nor in the coming age shall he obtain forgiveness."

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body and blood of the Lord.

At this they are astonished--that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you.

When He was reviled, He did not answer with reviling; when He suffered He uttered no threats, but left His wrongs in the hands of the righteous Judge.

not requiting evil with evil nor abuse with abuse, but, on the contrary, giving a blessing in return, because a blessing is what you have been called by God to inherit.

And the passers-by reviled Him. They shook their heads at Him

Be free men, and yet do not make your freedom an excuse for base conduct, but be God's bondservants.

This was partly through allowing yourselves to be made a public spectacle amid reproaches and persecutions, and partly through coming forward to share the sufferings of those who were thus treated.

Now one of the criminals who had been crucified insulted Him, saying, "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us."