Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About physical abuse in marriage
16 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about physical abuse in marriage? Browse 16 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Colossians 3:19 |
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| King James (KJV) | “Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.” |
16 Key Scriptures
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. to peace: Gr. in peace”
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash”
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4KJV
“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
“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
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. common: or, moderate”
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Exodus 20:14KJV
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24KJV
“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
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. he is: or, let him be”
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”
“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”
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