Spouse Abuse

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 →

Or 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 men, — read the full passage →

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

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.

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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 →

And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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.

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 now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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; — read the full passage →

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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

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

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

Know ye not that ye are a 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.

My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; — 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.

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

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

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 →

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

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

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

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. — 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 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.

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 →

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 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 →

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

And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from 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 with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

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

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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.

For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

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.

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

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

So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →