Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About abuse in a marriage
13 key scriptures
Discover 13 powerful Bible verses about abuse in a marriage. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential love & relationships topic.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Colossians 3:19 |
|---|---|
| King James (KJV) | “Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.” |
13 Key Scriptures
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
1 Peter 3:7KJV
“Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.”
“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.”
“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
“For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. that he: or, if he hate her, put her away putting: Heb. to put away”
Malachi 2:16KJV
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
“But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.”
“To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.”
Titus 3:2KJV
“And be ye kind one to another , tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”
Matthew 5:32KJV
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4KJV
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