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15 Bible Verses About Mistreating Your Wife

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  • Colossians 3:19 tells husbands to love their wives and not be harsh with them; the Greek verb, pikraino, means to make bitter.
  • In the NIV, Malachi 2:16 says a man who hates and divorces his wife “does violence to the one he should protect,” using chamas, the word Genesis 6:11 uses for the violence before the flood.
  • Malachi 2:13-14 and 1 Peter 3:7 both connect a man’s treatment of his wife with his worship: his offerings are refused, or his prayers hindered.
  • Exodus 21:10-11 required a husband to keep providing a wife’s food, clothing and marital rights, and freed her without payment if he did not.
  • 1 Corinthians 7:4 says the wife yields authority over her body to her husband and the husband yields authority over his body to his wife.

The Bible forbids a husband to mistreat his wife. Colossians 3:19 says, “Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them,” and Ephesians 5:25-29 measures that love by Christ’s love for the church. Malachi 2:13-16 calls a man’s betrayal of his wife violence, and 1 Peter 3:7 warns that the way a husband treats his wife can hinder his prayers. Behind the commands to husbands stand Genesis 1:27, where male and female alike are made in God’s image,…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 4087, πικραίνω (pikraino): to make bitter, to embitter; used in Colossians 3:19. biblehub.com/greek/4087

Strong’s Greek 4088, πικρία (pikria): bitterness; used in Ephesians 4:31. biblehub.com/greek/4088

Strong’s Hebrew 2555, חָמָס (chamas): violence, wrong; used in Genesis 6:11 and Malachi 2:16. biblehub.com/hebrew/2555

Bible Hub. Malachi 2:16 in parallel translations, including the King James Version and the English Standard Version. biblehub.com/malachi/2-16

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