Abuse In A Marriage

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.

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

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

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 →

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

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.

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 →

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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.”

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

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.

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

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

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

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

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — 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.

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

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

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 →

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. — read the full passage →

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

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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 →

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

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

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

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

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

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

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

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 →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

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

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,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

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.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — 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.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

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

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

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 →

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

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.

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

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

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

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.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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;

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; — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

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

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; — read the full passage →