18 Bible Verses about Abusive Relationships

And finally, all be of one mind, having compassion on one another, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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

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.

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

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.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a quarrelsome woman and to share a house.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury, lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,

But if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear you, take one or two more with you, so that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he neglects to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax-collector.

But if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear you, take one or two more with you, so that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he neglects to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax-collector.read more.
Truly I say to you, Whatever you shall bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven; and whatever you shall loose on earth shall occur, having been loosed in Heaven.

A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

to speak evil of no one, not being quarrelsome, but forbearing, showing all meekness to all men.

And if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.