Bible Verses About Abusive Relationships
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for abusive relationships, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,153 votes, led by Proverbs 22:24-25. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Abusive Relationships
Proverbs 22:24-25152 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Colossians 3:19109 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
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.
Proverbs 15:1-3395 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 21:980 votes
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
1 Timothy 5:872 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 3:769 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 3:10-1165 votes
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Titus 3:263 votes
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
Luke 4:18-1958 votes
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Ephesians 5:2558 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Proverbs 15:157 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4049 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Matthew 18:15-1747 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.
1 Timothy 3:244 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Isaiah 43:1-2837 votes
But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isaiah 41:1036 votes
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
1 Corinthians 15:3336 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Matthew 5:2932 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.
Proverbs 20:2228 votes
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
Proverbs 16:2527 votes
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Hebrews 13:427 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Psalms 34:1826 votes
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
1 Corinthians 5:1126 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
James 1:2625 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.
What does the Bible say about abusive relationships?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 22:24-25 on the subject of abusive relationships. Across 2,153 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 7:15, Proverbs 15:1-33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.