Physical Abuse In Marriage

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

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.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

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

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — 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.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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; — read the full passage →

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 →

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her. — read the full passage →

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

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.

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

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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 →

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

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

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

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

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.

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

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

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

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

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

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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 →

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 →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

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.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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

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;

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

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

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

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 →

Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treacherousshall eatviolence.

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

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

Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. — read the full passage →

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.