18 Bible Verses about Abusive Marriages
Most Relevant Verses
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?read more.
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
