Emotional Abuse

The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: — read the full passage →

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

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

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. — read the full passage →

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. — read the full passage →

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. — read the full passage →

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? — read the full passage →

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. — read the full passage →

Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

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

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. — read the full passage →

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; — read the full passage →

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →