Abuse From A Spouse

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehennaas yourselves.

You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say. — read the full passage →

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, — read the full passage →

All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

As many as desire to look good 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 →

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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

Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

We love him, because he first loved us.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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

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

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction 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 to the Lord.

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

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

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.