Bible Verses About Mental Abuse
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for mental abuse, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 12,313 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 Mental Abuse
Psalms 34:17-20291 votes
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Romans 8:1247 votes
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Ephesians 6:4227 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20216 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Peter 5:8205 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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.
Psalms 103:6181 votes
The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
1 Peter 3:1180 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;
Revelation 1:1179 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:
Hebrews 13:4177 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Romans 12:2174 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Galatians 5:19-21174 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Psalms 34:18168 votes
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
1 Corinthians 10:13168 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
John 8:32166 votes
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
James 5:16166 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.
Genesis 1:27157 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Proverbs 29:22155 votes
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
2 Corinthians 6:14155 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Exodus 21:22-25153 votes
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Proverbs 22:6148 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 12:18147 votes
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
3 John 1:2146 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Proverbs 22:24145 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
1 Corinthians 7:12-16143 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.
What does the Bible say about mental abuse?
Readers most often cite Psalms 34:17-20 on the subject of mental abuse. Across 12,313 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 8:1, Ephesians 6:4, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.