Bible Verses about โspouse abuseโ
The Bible contains 15 verses about spouse abuse across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โYet 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.โ
โYou 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.โ
โFor men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,โ
โholding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.โ
โBut know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.โ
โtraitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;โ
โwithout natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,โ
โbut I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.โ
โHusbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.โ
โFor I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.โ
โalways learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.โ
โFor some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,โ
โEven as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.โ
โYahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.โ
โDrive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.โ
