Bible Verses about “emotional abuse”
The Bible contains 19 verses about emotional abuse 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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.”
“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.”
“In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;”
“The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.”
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.”
“Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.”
“He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.”
“with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;”
“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.”
“Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.”