Abuse From A Spouse

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.

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

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

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.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. — read the full passage →

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

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. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. — read the full passage →

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.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. — read the full passage →

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. — read the full passage →

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, — read the full passage →

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. — read the full passage →

And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

We love him, because he first loved us.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: — read the full passage →

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

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.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. — read the full passage →

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

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

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.