Abuse From A Spouse

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

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

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

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

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

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

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall 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 they received of us.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

and that because of the false brethren privily 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 inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from 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 become so, ye make him twofold more a son 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 back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.

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

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and 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 somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. — read the full passage →

Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should 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’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

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

and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, — read the full passage →

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

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. — read the full passage →

And forgive us our sins; for we ourselves also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.

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

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

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

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

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

We love, because he first loved us.

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

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

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But 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 good works; — read the full passage →

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.

proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

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

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

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

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

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

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that 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, and pray for them that persecute you;

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

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

they 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 go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy name:

Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:

A fool uttereth all his anger; But a wise man keepeth it back and stilleth it.

A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet 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 harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.

Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.

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