Does the bible say anything about emotionally abusive relationships?
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1Co 7:3  Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.\n\nCol 3:19  Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. \n\nEph 5:22  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. \nEph 5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. \nEph 5:24  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. \nEph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;\n\nEph 5:28  So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
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We hurt OURSELVES, and in many ways.\nHatred, harbors unforgiveness, and if we are unforgiving, the Lord will not forgive us.\nAlso, if you do not forgive, your hatred turns to bitterness, and that will affect your future relationships, your outlook on life, and your Spiritual walk.
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The Bible definitely condones hitting your kid as a form of discipline.  \n\nSpare the rod and spoil the child.  It doesn't condone abuse however.  A loving parent will hit a child to teach him/her a lesson without causing real physical injury. Ever hear "this is gonna hurt me more than it's gonna hurt you."?  \n\nThat's the most important point here.  A loving parent should want to teach their child yet would never wish serious injury to their child.
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People will do and say anything to provoke others and it is best to express forgiveness and I hope you can forgive that person but as for me I do have a difficult time forgiving others for their trespasses against me especially when there are things in my past that has left me emotionally scarred to where I express distrust and resentment towards others mixed with a short temper and I do admit that this does hinder my personal relationship with the lord and I would ask that you would remember me in your prayers since it is likely that I'm about to get kicked off of this forum of which I don't care if I do get the boot.\nThey can kick the lord out of this forum but they can't kick the lord out of me.
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It is not the words, or their source, that matter but their understanding by the person using them.  Today you have people quoting words of peace and brotherly love while inciting the followers to a "holy" war, for example. The books of the Bible suppose to teach us the golden rule--love your neighbour like yourself--but some people react to the Bible's words as if they were drinking whiskey--they get violent and abusive.
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WELL IF HE WAS ABUSE AS A CHILD THEN ITS SAD TO SAY THAT IS WHAT HE KNOWS BUT DONT KNOW WHY. GET HELP SHOW HIM THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO STICK BY HIM BUT HE HAS TO GET HELP IF HE DONT WANT HELP THEN DONT STRESS LEAVE HIM BE BECAUSE WHY SHOULD YOU BE UNHAPPY CAUSE ONE PERSON DONT WANT HELP EVEN THE BIBLE SAYS SO GOD WILL HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEM SELF SO NO NEED TO TRY AND PUSH HIM TO DOING SOMETHING HE DONT WANT MOVE ON AND BE HAPPY I WISH YOU LUCK
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Love is far more powerful than any curse. Try reading the Bible.\n\nBible.com
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1 cor 13:4-8:\n\nLove is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. \nBeautiful isnt it?
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I would say it's kind of like comparing discipline and child abuse. A loving parent will discipline his/her child out of love. For example if a young child runs out into the street, a mother might discipline the child because she is concerned that the child will get hurt and she wants to teach the child not to run into the street. The intention is for the child's own good. On the other hand, if a parent beats a child for no reason and enjoys doing so, clearly that would be abuse. As a Christian, we should take the same view as the loving parent. For example, to love people and want to share the gospel with them so that they can be saved and avoid hell would be an example of "preaching the truth out of love." But if we enjoy telling people how bad they are and how good we are, then we are judging.
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The Bible does not mention ************. ************ has been around for thousands of years - if God hated it, He would say so!\n\nThe Bible does say that God dislikes perverted thoughts about other people - so if you're fantasising about a married person whilst doing it, yes that would be wrong!!\n\nSome people are so desperate to 'prove' that the Bible disapproves of ************ that they misquote a single passage in the Old Testament where a man withdrew from his wife and 'spilled his seed on the floor' to use her and stop her having a baby that he'd promised to try for. Clearly that's condemning what he did to his wife - NOT ************.\n\nThe Christian life can be a very difficult one to live. When churches start to add 'extra' rules ("don't **********", "don't date anyone until you're 18", "no alcohol at all", etc etc) that aren't in the Bible, people always seem to break them. Then they FEEL as though they're sinning because they're disobeying the church - whn in reality, churches need to be very careful not to ask unnecessary and difficult things of their congregations.\n\n************ is not a sin BUT if it CAUSES you to sin, THEN you should stop!
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Allow me to clarify some of the confusing responses.\n\nGod is love, Jesus taught us this over and over again in all of His teachings and sermons and parables.  God is love.  And while God's love for us is a higher love, consider the love between parent and child as well as husband and wife as examples of that love, as there are similarities in both.\n\nIf you are a man, would you defend yourself, knowing that if you do not you will die and leave your wife and children without you?  Would you defend them, if necessary?  Of course you would, if you love them.\n\nSometimes in love, it becomes necessary to be "violent", in other words, defend yourself.  I'm not talking about initiating violence, but sometimes you must defend what you love.  God is okay with this, just read the history of the Jews.\n\nAs a Christian, I must look first to God to see if this is within His will, and the better I know Him, the quicker the answer lol.
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Yes, but love is so much more than just the absence of abuse, it is a wonderful euphoric feeling, a warm good feeling that you feel deep inside of you.  A trusting feeling, when you know you can trust yourself with a person mind, body and soul.  \n\nIf you are being hurt in any way by someone, they do not love you. They may really sound sincere when they apologize, but they will only continue the pattern of hurting you each time you forgive them, and allow them to have another chance. The attacks may increase in violence, and duration without any warning. If someone is hurting you or if they are even verbally abusive to you, it's best to get out of that as soon as you can!\n\nReally there is never a good reason to allow someone to abuse you!  Good luck!  Love should never have to hurt.
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Your premise is flawed. Man is intrinsically bad according to the Bible.
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I never assume abuse , but I dont want to give someone the wrong advice and send them into a bad situation, especially if there are children involved\n\nI think abuse can be physical or emotional and either sided , the girl can be the abuser, \n\nhitting, pushing, slapping, touching in anger\nname calling , putting down all the time, hurting ones feelings on purpose, trying to control the other person. telling them where they can go , who they can be friends with. there are so many kinds of abuse
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Honestly?  He doesn't want to hurt your feelings. Besides Paul (in the bible) said it best - 'I'd rather face a raging lion than face a scorned woman"
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That is correct; the Bible speaks of those who have a "wicked heart of unbelief".\n\nhttp://www.needGod.com
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Yes.  However, I believe you get points (karmically) for both the kindness and putting up with the abuse.  Pray for the strength to stay kind.  Perhaps we should look up what Mother Teresa had to say about it.