Abusive Husbands

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.

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

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 →

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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.

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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

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,

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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;

We love him, because he first loved us.

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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 →

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. — 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.

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

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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.

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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

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 →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

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 →

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,

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

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

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

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.”

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 →

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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.

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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 →

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, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

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.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

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.

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

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.