Bible Quotes About Sexual Assault

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”

“And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.”

“The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. a refuge: Heb. an high place”

“The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.”

“But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. bloody: Heb. men of bloods and deceit shall: Heb. shall not half their days”

“He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.”

“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Defend: Heb. Judge”

“So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. side: Heb. hand”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. relieve: or, righten”

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; that write: or, to the writers that write grievousness”

“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? the heavy: Heb. the bundles of the yoke oppressed: Heb. broken”

“For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. a bribe: or, a ransom”

“Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.”

“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted , to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”

“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”

“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”