Spousal Abuse

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.” — read the full passage →

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.