100 Bible Verses about Abusing My Wife (KJV)

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

Colossians 3:19 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 3:7-8 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. ⁸Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:28 KJV

²⁸So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:25 KJV

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Malachi 2:16 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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 15:1 KJV

¹A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Titus 3:2 KJV

²To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:28-29 KJV

²⁸So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. ²⁹For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:25-28 KJV

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. ²⁸So ought men to love their wives as …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Galatians 3:28 KJV

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Timothy 1:7 KJV

⁷For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 3:7 KJV

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Timothy 5:8 KJV

⁸But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:22 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 22:10 KJV

¹⁰Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 10:12-15 KJV

¹²Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. ¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. ¹⁴Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Hebrews 13:4 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:21 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:1-33 KJV

¹Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; ²And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 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, …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV

¹³There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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 …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 7:11 KJV

¹¹But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Luke 16:18 KJV

¹⁸Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 19:4-6 KJV

⁴And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, ⁵And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? ⁶Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:1-25 KJV

¹If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. ²Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. ³For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

John 3:16-17 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. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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. …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 10:11 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 11:5 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Genesis 2:24 KJV

²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 3:8 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 3:1-22 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; ²While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. ³Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; ⁴But let …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:33 KJV

³³Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:25-29 KJV

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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?

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 KJV

¹Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. ²Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. ³Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. ⁴The wife hath not power of her own body, but the …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Malachi 2:13-16 KJV

¹³And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. ¹⁴Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 18:22 KJV

²²Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 John 3:18 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Peter 1:7 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 4:8 KJV

⁸And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 3:4 KJV

⁴But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

James 3:10 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Hebrews 10:24 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Thessalonians 3:15 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Thessalonians 5:11 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:14 KJV

¹⁴Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 4:31 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 4:29-32 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. ³⁰And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. ³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: ³²And …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 7:5 KJV

⁵Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Mark 9:42 KJV

⁴²And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

James 4:7 KJV

⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

James 1:1-27 KJV

¹James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. ²My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; ³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. ⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Hebrews 12:12 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Hebrews 10:24-25 KJV

²⁴And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: ²⁵Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Timothy 3:1-8 KJV

¹This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, ⁴Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Timothy 3:1-6 KJV

¹This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. ²A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; ³Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; ⁴One that ruleth well his own house, …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Timothy 3:1-16 KJV

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:21 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:18-21 KJV

¹⁸Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. ¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. ²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. ²¹Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:18-19 KJV

¹⁸Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. ¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:8 KJV

⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Philippians 2:4 KJV

⁴Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:31 KJV

³¹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:25-33 KJV

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:23 KJV

²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:22-24 KJV

²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. ²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:22-33 KJV

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:21-24 KJV

²¹Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. ²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. ²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. ²⁴Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 5:16 KJV

¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 7:2 KJV

²Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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 …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Romans 12:18 KJV

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

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

John 15:12 KJV

¹²This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 19:5 KJV

⁵And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 19:3-9 KJV

³The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? ⁴And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, ⁵And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

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 …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse