What does the Bible say about abusive husbands?

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• Colossians 3:19 4 votes

  Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

• 1 Peter 3:7 4 votes

  You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

• Hebrews 13:4 3 votes

  Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

• Proverbs 22:10 3 votes

  Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

• Proverbs 15:1 3 votes

  A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

• 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 3 votes

  But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

• Ephesians 5:25-29 3 votes

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect. Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,

• 1 Corinthians 7:15 2 votes

  Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

• Ephesians 5:25 2 votes

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,

• Mark 10:2-12 2 votes

  Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.” But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. If a woman herself divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

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