Bible Verses About Physical Abuse in Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for physical abuse in marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 574 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 Physical Abuse in Marriage
Colossians 3:1980 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Corinthians 7:1548 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 5:2548 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 13:4-745 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Hebrews 13:444 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4030 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Malachi 2:1624 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 10:1323 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.
2 Corinthians 6:1422 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Exodus 20:1421 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Genesis 2:2419 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 5:3218 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.
2 Corinthians 5:1717 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Proverbs 18:2216 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Proverbs 5:18-1915 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Ephesians 5:2114 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Mark 10:2-1213 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 3:1-2213 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;
Genesis 2:1812 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
1 Corinthians 6:1612 votes
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Psalms 91:1-1610 votes
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Luke 16:1810 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Titus 3:510 votes
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
James 1:19-2010 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
What does the Bible say about physical abuse in marriage?
Readers most often cite Colossians 3:19 on the subject of physical abuse in marriage. Across 574 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:15, Ephesians 5:25, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.