Abusive Marriages

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

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

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — 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 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.

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 →

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. — 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,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

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

Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. — 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 →

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

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

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

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 →

“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 →

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

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.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

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.

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.

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.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

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.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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

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

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.

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.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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 →

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

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.”

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

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn’t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. — read the full passage →

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.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

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

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

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — read the full passage →

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.

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.