Bible verses about "abuse" | Williams

¹⁹ Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own, ²⁰ for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.

¹ What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. ² You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them. ³ You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures. ⁴ You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God. ⁵ Or, do you think that the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He jealously yearns for the Spirit that He causes to dwell in your hearts"? ⁶ But He gives a greater spiritual blessing. He says, "God opposes haughty people but blesses humble people." ⁷ So then, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you. ⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded. ⁹ Be miserable, mourn ... and weep aloud. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you high. ¹¹ Stop talking against one another, brothers. Whoever is in the habit of talking against a brother or of criticizing his brother is criticizing and condemning the law. But if you are in the habit of criticizing the law, you are not a practicer but a critic of the law. ¹² There is but one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who has the power to save and to destroy; then who are you that you presume to judge your brother? ¹³ Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money," ¹⁴ although you do not have the slightest knowledge of tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? It is really nothing but a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord is willing, we shall live and do this or that." ¹⁶ But, as it is, you boast of your proud pretensions. All such boasting is wicked. ¹⁷ So when a man knows what is right but does not do it, he is guilty of sin.

¹⁶ So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful.

¹⁹ You husbands must continue to love your wives and stop being harsh with them.

²¹ Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.

¹⁹ Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, intrigues, dissensions, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I now warn you, as I have done before, that those who practice such things shall not be heirs of the kingdom of God.

⁴ You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.