Abusive relationships

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• Proverbs 22:24–25

  Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

• Colossians 3:19

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

• 1 Corinthians 7:15

  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.

• Proverbs 15:1–33

  A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. …

• Proverbs 21:9

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

• 1 Timothy 5:8

  But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

• 1 Peter 3:7

  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.

• Titus 3:10–11

  A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

• Titus 3:2

  To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

• Luke 4:18–19

  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

• Proverbs 15:1

  A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

• Ephesians 5:25

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

• 1 Corinthians 7:1–40

  Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. …

• Matthew 18:15–17

  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. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

• Isaiah 43:1–28

  But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. …

• Isaiah 41:10

  Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

• 1 Corinthians 15:33

  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

• Matthew 5:29

  And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

• Hebrews 13:4

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

• Proverbs 20:22

  Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

• Psalms 34:18

  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

• 1 Corinthians 5:11

  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

• James 1:26

  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.

• Proverbs 16:25

  There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

• Proverbs 21:2

  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

• Psalms 55:22

  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

• Romans 15:13

  Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

• Ephesians 4:32

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

• Proverbs 19:11

  The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

• Matthew 5:31–32

  It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 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.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:21

  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

• James 1:19–20

  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

• James 3:10

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

• Proverbs 10:6

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

• 1 Corinthians 7:10–11

  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

• Ephesians 4:31

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

• Ephesians 4:29

  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.

• Psalms 140:12

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

• Psalms 11:5

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