abusing my wife
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19Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
7Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered. 8And finally, may you all be of one mind: compassionate, loving brotherhood, merciful, meek, humble,
28So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
16If you would hold hatred, dismiss her, says the Lord, the God of Israel. But iniquity will cover his garment, says the Lord of hosts. Preserve your spirit, and do not be willing to despise.
1A mild response shatters anger. But a harsh word stirs up fury.
2to speak evil of no one, not to be litigious, but to be reserved, displaying all meekness toward all men.
28So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither servant nor free; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her, 26so that he might sanctify her, washing her clean by water and the Word of life, 27so that he might offer her to himself as a glorious Church, not having any spot or wrinkle or any such thing, so that she would be holy and immaculate. 28So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.