Bible Verses About Abuse
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for abuse, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 13,935 votes, led by Ephesians 6:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Abuse
Ephesians 6:4364 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Galatians 5:19-21283 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Colossians 3:19270 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians 3:21252 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 22:10241 votes
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
1 Corinthians 7:15230 votes
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.
Psalms 11:5229 votes
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20217 votes
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?
Psalms 147:3206 votes
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Proverbs 10:11195 votes
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 15:1174 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Psalms 9:9164 votes
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
1 Peter 3:7164 votes
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.
Ephesians 4:31158 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
2 Timothy 3:1-8157 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
James 1:19-20153 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 1:26149 votes
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.
James 3:10146 votes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James 5:16142 votes
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.
Matthew 18:15-17131 votes
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.
Psalms 103:6129 votes
The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5129 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
James 4:1-17124 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Proverbs 19:19123 votes
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
Ephesians 4:29123 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about abuse?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 6:4 on the subject of abuse. Across 13,935 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Galatians 5:19-21, Colossians 3:19, Colossians 3:21. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.