Bible Verses About Abusing My Wife
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for abusing my wife, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 622 votes, led by Colossians 3:19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Abusing My Wife
Colossians 3:1965 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ephesians 5:2855 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1 Peter 3:7-854 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 5:2550 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Malachi 2:1644 votes
For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Proverbs 15:140 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Ephesians 5:28-2930 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Titus 3:230 votes
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
Galatians 3:2828 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 5:25-2828 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
2 Timothy 1:727 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
1 Timothy 5:814 votes
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 3:714 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.
Proverbs 22:1013 votes
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
1 Corinthians 7:1513 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.
Ephesians 4:3213 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 5:2212 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Psalms 10:12-1511 votes
Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Revelation 1:111 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
1 Corinthians 7:10-1110 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians 7:1110 votes
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1610 votes
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Ephesians 5:1-3310 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Ephesians 6:410 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Hebrews 13:410 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
What does the Bible say about abusing my wife?
Readers most often cite Colossians 3:19 on the subject of abusing my wife. Across 622 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:28, 1 Peter 3:7-8, Ephesians 5:25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.