living with verbal abuse
What does the Bible say about living with verbal abuse? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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10Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,
18Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.
29Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.
33Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.
4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.
1If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. 2And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. 3And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. 4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. 5Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. 6Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.
1Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?
7But avoid the silly fables of old women. And exercise yourself so as to advance in piety.
6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.
15Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.