Bible Verses about “sexual abuse”
The Bible contains 27 verses about sexual abuse across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;”
“"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.”
“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;”
“"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.”
“but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.”
“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”
“"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”
“"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,”
“Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.”
“"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”
“"Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'”
“The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
“and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."”
“"'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.”
“"'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.”
“"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.”
“"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.”
“It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.”
“Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.”
“He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.”
“Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;”
“to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!”
“Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.”
“Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.”
“For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.”
“But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.”