Bible Verses About Emotional Abuse
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for emotional abuse, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,744 votes, led by Psalms 34:17-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Emotional Abuse
Psalms 34:17-20217 votes
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
1 Peter 3:7202 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 6:4166 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Psalms 103:6105 votes
The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
2 Corinthians 6:1484 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Ephesians 4:276 votes
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Colossians 3:1973 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1664 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.
James 5:1658 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.
1 Peter 3:157 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;
Hebrews 13:452 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Romans 8:146 votes
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Psalms 11:544 votes
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Ephesians 4:2939 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.
Ephesians 4:3238 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Hebrews 13:337 votes
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
James 3:1036 votes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Matthew 5:3234 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.
James 1:2632 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.
Proverbs 12:1831 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Malachi 2:1630 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.
Romans 12:1829 votes
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
1 Corinthians 5:9-1329 votes
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Genesis 1:2728 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Proverbs 29:2228 votes
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
What does the Bible say about emotional abuse?
Readers most often cite Psalms 34:17-20 on the subject of emotional abuse. Across 2,744 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, Ephesians 6:4, Psalms 103:6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.