Abuse In A Marriage

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.

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

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

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

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

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.

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

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

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

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 →

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

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.

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 →

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

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.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

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.

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

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

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.

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — 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.

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 →

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 it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

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 →

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. — read the full passage →

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

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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 →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

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

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

My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

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

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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 →

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →

Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the needy.

Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

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

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;

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

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.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

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

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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.

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — 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 this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

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 →

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.

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.

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →

A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;

And the afflicted people thou wilt save; But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

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.

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

beholding your chaste behaviorcoupledwith fear.

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;

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; — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints; — read the full passage →