Bible Verses About Abusive Marriages
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for abusive marriages, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 430 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 Marriages
Colossians 3:1948 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ephesians 5:2538 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Peter 3:736 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.
Titus 3:232 votes
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
1 Corinthians 7:1529 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 5:2829 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1 John 4:123 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 2:420 votes
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4019 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1619 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.
Proverbs 15:118 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Malachi 2:1616 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.
Matthew 19:3-915 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?
1 John 1:913 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 5:2912 votes
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.
Matthew 5:27-2811 votes
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mark 10:2-1211 votes
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
1 Peter 3:111 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Matthew 5:3210 votes
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 Corinthians 11:310 votes
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
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 abusive marriages?
Readers most often cite Colossians 3:19 on the subject of abusive marriages. Across 430 votes, 21 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:25, 1 Peter 3:7, Titus 3:2. This page lists all 21 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.