Bible Verses about “abuse from a spouse”
The Bible contains 43 verses about abuse from a spouse across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”
“Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.”
“The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.”
“But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.”
“For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?”
“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.”
“Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
“For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;”
“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
“but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.”
“Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'”
“I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."”
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”
“Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.”
“Give us today our daily bread.”
“Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
“For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.”
“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."”
“If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."”
“and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.”
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,”
“Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;”
“But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.”
“He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.”
“It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.”
“Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.”
“Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"”
“Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.”
“Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.”
“In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.”
“Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.”
“He answered, "What did Moses command you?"”
“They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."”
“But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.”
“Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.”
“For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.”
“For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.”
“This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.”