Domestic Violence

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away, — read the full passage →

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

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

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers-- — read the full passage →

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers; — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

and as an enemy count <FI>him<Fi> not, but admonish ye <FI>him<Fi> as a brother;

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed, — read the full passage →

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

And I am persuaded, my brethren--I myself also--concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

did it not behove also thee to have dealt kindly with thy fellow-servant, as I also dealt kindly with thee?

`What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not--having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains--seek that which is gone astray? — read the full passage →

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce; — read the full passage →