Emotional Abuse

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. — read the full passage →

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

Jehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

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

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

And to the rest I speak--not the Lord--if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away; — read the full passage →

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

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;

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

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

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

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

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;

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

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

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

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

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; — read the full passage →

the fathers! vex not your children, 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 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;

`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 →

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

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;

A fountain of life <FI>is<Fi> the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

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

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — 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.

From fraud and from violence he redeemeth their soul, And precious is their blood in his eyes.

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

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters <FI>With<Fi> violence and deceit.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

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

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

Blessings <FI>are<Fi> for the head of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

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: --

The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?

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

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

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

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.

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

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

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, — read the full passage →

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

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

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

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

that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me. — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

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 →

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

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;

`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 →

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously. — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.

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

And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> , there <FI>is<Fi> liberty;

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen. — read the full passage →

For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land.

Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

My deliverer from mine enemies, Above my withstanders Thou raisest me, From a man of violence dost deliver me.

And they say one unto another, `Verily we <FI>are<Fi> guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

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

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

and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

For He hath not despised, nor abominated, The affliction of the afflicted, Nor hath He hidden His face from him, And in his crying unto Him He heareth.

`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 →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`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.

`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 →