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Abuse Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Abuse Galatians 5:19–21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Abuse Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

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Abuse Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

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Abuse 1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

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Abuse 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; / you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

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Abuse Psalm 11:5

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

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Abuse Proverbs 22:10

Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

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Abuse Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

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Abuse Psalm 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

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Abuse from a Spouse Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

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Abuse from a Spouse 1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

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Abuse from a Spouse Proverbs 22:10

Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

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Abuse from a Spouse Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

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Abuse from a Spouse James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

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Abuse from a Spouse Proverbs 21:9

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

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Abuse from a Spouse 1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

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Alcohol Abuse 1 Peter 5:8

Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

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Alcohol Abuse Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

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Alcohol Abuse Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

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Alcohol Abuse Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

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Alcohol Abuse Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

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Alcohol Abuse Galatians 5:21

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Alcohol Abuse 1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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Alcohol Abuse Romans 13:13

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

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Alcohol Abuse 1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

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Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: An Abuse of Riches James 5:1, 5

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. / You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

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Child Abuse Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Child Abuse Mark 9:42

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.

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Child Abuse Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

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Child Abuse Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

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Child Abuse Matthew 18:6

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

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Child Abuse Mark 10:14

But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and told them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

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Child Abuse Psalm 137:9

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

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Child Abuse Exodus 21:22

If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.

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Child Abuse Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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Child Abuse Proverbs 22:6

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

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Christian Liberty: False Teachers: Abuse Jude 1:4

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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Christian Liberty: Saints should not Abuse Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

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Christian Liberty: Saints should not Abuse 1 Peter 2:16

Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

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Commerce: Denunciations Connected with Abuses of Isaiah 23:11

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

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Commerce: Denunciations Connected with Abuses of Ezekiel 7:12, 13

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude. / The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.

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Commerce: Denunciations Connected with Abuses of Ezekiel 27:32–36

As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea? / When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise. / Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

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Commerce: Denunciations Connected with Abuses of Ezekiel 28:16–18

By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. / Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings. / By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.

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Corinth: The Congregation of Abuse of Ordinances In 1 Corinthians 11:22

Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!

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Corinth: The Congregation of Abuse of Ordinances In 1 Corinthians 14:1

Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

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Domestic Abuse 1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

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Domestic Abuse Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse Psalm 11:5

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse 1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse Galatians 5:19–21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse James 1:19, 20

My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, / for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse 1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse 1 Corinthians 3:16, 17

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? / If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

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Domestic Violence and Abuse Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Elder Abuse 1 Timothy 5:8

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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Elder Abuse Hebrews 10:26

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

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Elder Abuse Galatians 5:22, 23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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Elder Abuse Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

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Emotional Abuse 1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

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Emotional Abuse Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Emotional Abuse Psalm 103:6

The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

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Emotional Abuse 2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

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Emotional Abuse Ephesians 4:2

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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Emotional Abuse Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

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Emotional Abuse James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

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Emotional Abuse 1 Peter 3:1

Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

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Emotional Abuse Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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Emotional Abuse Romans 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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God: Longsuffering of, Abused Nehemiah 9:28–31

But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion. / You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey. / You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

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God: Longsuffering of, Abused Proverbs 1:24–27

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, / because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, / in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

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God: Longsuffering of, Abused Proverbs 29:1

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

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God: Longsuffering of, Abused Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

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God: Longsuffering of, Abused Matthew 24:48–51

But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’ / And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. / The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.

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God: Longsuffering of, Abused Luke 13:6–9

Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. / So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ / ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

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Grace: Antinomians Abused Jude 1:4

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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Grace: Not to be Abused Romans 3:8

Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

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Grace: Not to be Abused Romans 6:1, 15

What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? / What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

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Language: Power of Speaking Different: Sometimes Abused 1 Corinthians 14:2–12, 23

For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries in the Spirit. / But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, encouragement, and comfort. / The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.

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Living with Verbal Abuse Titus 3:10

Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

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Living with Verbal Abuse 1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

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Living with Verbal Abuse Ephesians 4:29

Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

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Living with Verbal Abuse 1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

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Mental Abuse 1 Peter 5:8

Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

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Mental Abuse 1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

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Mental Abuse John 8:32

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

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Mental Abuse 2 Corinthians 12:9

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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Mental Abuse Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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Mental Abuse Romans 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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Mental Abuse 3 John 1:2

Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers.

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Physical Abuse Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Physical Abuse 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; / you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

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Physical Abuse Romans 13:8–10

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. / The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” / Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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Physical Abuse Galatians 5:19–21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Physical Abuse in Marriage Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

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Physical Abuse in Marriage 1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

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Physical Abuse in Marriage Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

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