Bible Verses about “abuse in a marriage”
The Bible contains 17 verses about abuse in a marriage across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“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.”
“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
“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.”
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
“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.”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“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.”
“to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.”
“Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.”