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100 Bible Verses about Mental Abuse

Psalm 34:17-20 ESV / 291 helpful votes

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 247 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 227 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 216 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 205 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 201 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Psalm 103:6 ESV / 181 helpful votes

The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 180 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 179 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 177 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 174 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 174 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 168 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 168 helpful votes

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

James 5:16 ESV / 166 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

John 8:32 ESV / 166 helpful votes

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

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 157 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 155 helpful votes

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 153 helpful votes

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 148 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 147 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 146 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 144 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

1 Corinthians 7:12-16 ESV / 143 helpful votes

To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to 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 4:2 ESV / 142 helpful votes

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

James 1:26 ESV / 139 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 139 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 136 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 133 helpful votes

But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 127 helpful votes

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Matthew 18:6 ESV / 127 helpful votes

But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 126 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 126 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 18:15-20 ESV / 126 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 123 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 122 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

John 3:16 ESV / 122 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 114 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 18:14 ESV / 113 helpful votes

A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 106 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 105 helpful votes

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

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 102 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 101 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 97 helpful votes

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 95 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 93 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 89 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 89 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 89 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Proverbs 10:11 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 87 helpful votes

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Proverbs 19:19 ESV / 87 helpful votes

A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 83 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

2 Peter 1:7 ESV / 83 helpful votes

And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 82 helpful votes

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Proverbs 23:7 ESV / 81 helpful votes

For he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 80 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 77 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 ESV / 76 helpful votes

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

John 15:12 ESV / 76 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 73 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Romans 12:18 ESV / 72 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

James 5:19-20 ESV / 70 helpful votes

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 70 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ...

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 67 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 64 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 62 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Philippians 4:18 ESV / 62 helpful votes

I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Matthew 19:20 ESV / 62 helpful votes

The young man said to him, “All these I have kept. What do I still lack?”

Matthew 18:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes

And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

John 3:8 ESV / 60 helpful votes

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Psalm 9:9 ESV / 60 helpful votes

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 59 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 59 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

James 3:10 ESV / 58 helpful votes

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Hebrews 13:3 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Zephaniah 1:9 ESV / 57 helpful votes

On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.

Proverbs 10:6 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 55 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Psalm 146:7 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;

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