Bible Verses About Abuse

“Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.”

“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.”

“What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy? But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you. Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.”

“A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.”

“Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.”

“He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.”

“Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.”

“You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.”

“I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.”

“Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.”

“I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

“An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.”

“You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.”

“Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.”

“And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.”

“But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.”

“Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone. Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.” On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

“He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.”

“Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.”

“Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.”

“Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.”

“But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

“But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.”

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.”

“You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear, to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.”

“See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.”

“Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.”

“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”

“Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”

“A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.”

“If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.”

“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young. You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.”

“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”

“Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;”

“He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.”

“Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.”

“Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.”

“Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.”

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock. The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.”

“But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.”

“For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.”

“The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.”

“A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.”

“But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.”

“Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.”

“What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.”

“The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”

“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”

“A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.”

“The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.”