100 Bible Verses about Emotional Abuse (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about emotional abuse, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Psalm 34:17-20 KJV

¹⁷The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. ¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. ¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. ²⁰He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

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1 Peter 3:7 KJV

⁷Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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Ephesians 6:4 KJV

⁴And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Psalm 103:6 KJV

⁶The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

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2 Corinthians 6:14 KJV

¹⁴Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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Ephesians 4:2 KJV

²With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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Colossians 3:19 KJV

¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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1 Corinthians 7:12-16 KJV

¹²But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. ¹³And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. ¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were …

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James 5:16 KJV

¹⁶Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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1 Peter 3:1 KJV

¹Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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Hebrews 13:4 KJV

⁴Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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Romans 8:1 KJV

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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Psalm 11:5 KJV

⁵The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

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Ephesians 4:29 KJV

²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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Ephesians 4:32 KJV

³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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Hebrews 13:3 KJV

³Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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James 3:10 KJV

¹⁰Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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Matthew 5:32 KJV

³²But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

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James 1:26 KJV

²⁶If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

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Malachi 2:16 KJV

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Proverbs 12:18 KJV

¹⁸There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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1 Corinthians 5:9-13 KJV

⁹I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: ¹⁰Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. ¹¹But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an …

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Romans 12:18 KJV

¹⁸If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

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James 1:19-20 KJV

¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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Proverbs 29:22 KJV

²²An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

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Genesis 1:27 KJV

²⁷So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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Exodus 21:22-25 KJV

²²If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. ²³And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, ²⁴Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, …

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Colossians 3:21 KJV

²¹Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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Ephesians 4:31 KJV

³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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Galatians 6:1 KJV

¹Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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Matthew 18:15-17 KJV

¹⁵Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. ¹⁶But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. ¹⁷And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear …

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1 Corinthians 7:15 KJV

¹⁵But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

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Proverbs 18:21 KJV

²¹Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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Proverbs 10:11 KJV

¹¹The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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1 Thessalonians 5:11 KJV

¹¹Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 KJV

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body …

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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Matthew 19:8 KJV

⁸He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

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Proverbs 10:6 KJV

⁶Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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Psalm 72:14 KJV

¹⁴He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

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Ephesians 5:22 KJV

²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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Zephaniah 1:9 KJV

⁹In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

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Proverbs 31:9 KJV

⁹Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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Proverbs 22:24 KJV

²⁴Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

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1 John 1:9 KJV

⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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1 Peter 3:8 KJV

⁸Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

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Philippians 4:19 KJV

¹⁹But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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Psalm 146:7 KJV

⁷Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

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Psalm 9:9 KJV

⁹The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

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James 5:19-20 KJV

¹⁹Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; ²⁰Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

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James 3:17 KJV

¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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Proverbs 18:14 KJV

¹⁴The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

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1 John 3:18 KJV

¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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2 Peter 1:7 KJV

⁷And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

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Matthew 18:33 KJV

³³Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

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Proverbs 22:6 KJV

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Psalm 140:12 KJV

¹²I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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2 Samuel 22:28 KJV

²⁸And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

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Isaiah 1:17 KJV

¹⁷Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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1 Peter 2:24 KJV

²⁴Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

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Hebrews 12:12 KJV

¹²Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

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Hebrews 10:24 KJV

²⁴And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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Colossians 3:12-13 KJV

¹²Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; ¹³Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

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Ephesians 5:21 KJV

²¹Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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Galatians 6:2 KJV

²Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV

⁹And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

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Romans 14:19 KJV

¹⁹Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

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Romans 12:10 KJV

¹⁰Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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Mark 10:2-12 KJV

²And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. ³And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? ⁴And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. ⁵And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. …

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Ezekiel 3:17-19 KJV

¹⁷Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. ¹⁸When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. ¹⁹Yet if thou …

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Proverbs 22:15 KJV

¹⁵Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 KJV

¹⁴And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. ¹⁵Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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2 Corinthians 13:11 KJV

¹¹Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

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1 Corinthians 7:10-11 KJV

¹⁰And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: ¹¹But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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1 Corinthians 6:1-3 KJV

¹Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? ²Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? ³Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

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Romans 15:14 KJV

¹⁴And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

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Matthew 18:12-14 KJV

¹²How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? ¹³And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. ¹⁴Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that …

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Malachi 2:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. ¹⁷Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

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Jeremiah 22:3 KJV

³Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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Proverbs 19:19 KJV

¹⁹A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

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1 Thessalonians 5:14 KJV

¹⁴Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

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2 Corinthians 3:17 KJV

¹⁷Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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Matthew 19:9 KJV

⁹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

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Isaiah 35:3-4 KJV

³Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ⁴Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

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Psalm 37:9 KJV

⁹For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

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Psalm 34:18 KJV

¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

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Psalm 18:48 KJV

⁴⁸He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

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Genesis 42:21 KJV

²¹And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

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Titus 2:4 KJV

⁴That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

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2 Thessalonians 3:15 KJV

¹⁵Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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2 Thessalonians 3:6 KJV

⁶Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

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Ephesians 5:3-5 KJV

³But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; ⁴Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. ⁵For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Luke 15:7 KJV

⁷I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

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Matthew 18:6 KJV

⁶But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

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Proverbs 3:1-3 KJV

¹My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: ²For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. ³Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

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Psalm 23:1-6 KJV

¹The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ²He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ³He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. ⁴Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. …

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Psalm 22:24 KJV

²⁴For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

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Matthew 5:21-22 KJV

²¹Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: ²²But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Matthew 18:15-20 KJV

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