Bible Verses about “domestic violence”
The Bible contains 11 verses about domestic violence across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
“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.”
“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”
“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.”
“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,”
“Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.”