What does the Bible say about living with verbal abuse?

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• Titus 3:10

  Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

• 1 John 4:18

  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

• Ephesians 4:29

  Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

• 1 Corinthians 15:33

  Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

• Ephesians 6:4

  You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

  [1] If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. [2] If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. [3] If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. [4] Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, [5] doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; [6] doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [7] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [8] Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; [10] but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. [11] When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. [12] For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. [13] But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.

• James 4:1

  Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

• 1 Timothy 4:7

  But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

• Proverbs 22:6

  Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

• Proverbs 22:15

  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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