Bible Verses About Abusive Husbands
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for abusive husbands, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,723 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 Abusive Husbands
Colossians 3:19174 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Peter 3:7152 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.
Hebrews 13:4128 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 22:10123 votes
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
Proverbs 15:1116 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
1 Corinthians 7:12-16110 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 5:25-29109 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 7:15105 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 5:2598 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Mark 10:2-1296 votes
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
1 John 1:980 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalms 118:1-1862 votes
O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
Malachi 2:15-1658 votes
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Ephesians 5:28-2958 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Psalms 55:20-2153 votes
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
Matthew 19:3-951 votes
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Ephesians 4:3250 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
John 3:1649 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-1447 votes
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Proverbs 10:1145 votes
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 9:944 votes
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
1 Corinthians 7:10-1144 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
James 1:19-2044 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Malachi 2:1643 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.
1 Corinthians 7:1-1143 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
What does the Bible say about abusive husbands?
Readers most often cite Colossians 3:19 on the subject of abusive husbands. Across 3,723 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, Hebrews 13:4, Proverbs 22:10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.