28 Bible Verses about Abusive Husbands

submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter against them.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

Jehovah, the God of Israel, says He hates sending away; and to cover with violence on his garment, says Jehovah of Hosts. Then guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as is becoming in the Lord.

Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear sons, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.

The mouth of a righteous one is a well of life; but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

But I say to you that whoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry her who is put away commits adultery.

Likewise, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the Word, they may also be won without the Word by the conduct of the wives, having witnessed your chaste behavior in the fear of God. Of whom let not be the adorning of garments, or outward braiding of hair and wearing of gold, or of putting on clothing,read more.
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the sight of God. For so once indeed the holy women hoping in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands; as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good and fearing no terror.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.

Therefore what God has joined together, let not man put apart.

But if the unbelieving one separates, let him be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

If it is possible, as far as is in you, being in peace with all men.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not into the way of evil. Avoid it; do not pass by it; turn from it, and pass on! For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.read more.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling to be killed, unless you hold back.

When a man has taken a wife and married her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorce and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she has departed from his house, she goes and becomes another man's; and the latter husband hates her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, he who took her to be his wiferead more.
her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is hateful before Jehovah. And you shall not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.

Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good; that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.read more.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish. So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh." This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

And He went with them and came to Nazareth, and He was subject to them. But His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.