Spouse Abuse

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. — read the full passage →

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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

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

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.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

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

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

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

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 →

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

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

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.

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 →

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 →

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

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.

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

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.

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

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 →

And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

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

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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.

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 now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

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

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

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

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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

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

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

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

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; — 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.

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

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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 →

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 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 →

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, — read the full passage →

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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

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

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →