Spouse Abuse

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

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.

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;

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.

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 this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

Cast out a scorner--and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

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

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

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 concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

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

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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

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

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

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

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

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

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

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

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

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

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 →

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

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

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.

`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 →

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 →

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;

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;

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

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

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;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

`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 →

And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand. — read the full passage →

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

Jehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed.

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

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

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

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

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,

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

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;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

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.

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

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

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

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

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

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

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

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

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

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

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — 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;

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

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

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

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

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 →

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 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 →

And Jesus answering, again spake to them in similes, saying, — read the full passage →

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

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

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

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;

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

`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.'

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

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

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →