Bible Verses about “domestic violence and abuse”
The Bible contains 24 verses about domestic violence and abuse across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“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,”
“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.”
“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”
“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”
“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”
“for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.”
“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”
“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”
“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”
“always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
“For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,”
“Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.”
“Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.”