Topic
Domestic Abuse
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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.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
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.
they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy name:
Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses: — read the full passage →
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.