Emotional Abuse

The righteous cried, and Jehovah heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

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.

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

Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or 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 say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But 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 wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

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

And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he 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.

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

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight:

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.

Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

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

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;

My brethren, if any among you 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, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?

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

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?

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

I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the needy.

Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

learn to do well; seek justice, 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 body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

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

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one 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 up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

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

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

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

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

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

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the land.

Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.

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

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

And 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 they received of us.

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

but whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.

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

Jehovah 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 to 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →