Bible Verses about “abusive husbands”

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”

“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.”

“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.”

“that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,”

“that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”

“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,”

“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.”

“Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"”

“In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.”

“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.”