What Does the Bible Say About Ex Boyfriend?

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 33 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 17 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 17 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.

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 17 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.

John 14:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 17 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.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Proverbs 31:10-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Peter 4:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. ...

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...

34 Bible Verses about Ex Boyfriend

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 33 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 26 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

John 14:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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34 Bible Verses about Ex Boyfriend

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Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 33 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 26 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

John 14:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes