Abusive Relationships

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning; — read the full passage →

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

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

“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 →

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

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 →

“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 →

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

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 →

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

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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.

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

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

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

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.

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.

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

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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 →

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

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.”

“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.

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.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

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.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

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

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

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

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.

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 →

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 →

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

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. — read the full passage →

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

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

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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

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.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — 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.

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

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the 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 →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

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

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — 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 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.

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

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.

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

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 →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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

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;

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.