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- Embed this noticeMy point the entire time has been, "That scripture is used by worldly people to excuse their abuses and to keep taking advantage of people while telling you to just take it." That is repeatedly opening yourself to abuse. I'm not arguing those verses say anything about repeatedly opening yourself up to abuse, I am arguing people *use them* to make Christians believe they are supposed to repeatedly opening themselves to the same exact abuse from the same people.
Those verses simply tell you how to handle situations, to handle everyone and everything with grace. Give to others, love others, don't hold anger in your heart over abuses but instead forgive them, so on and so forth. Not "keep going back to people who have shown they're going to repeatedly do this to you". That is where you have to look toward other verses on how we are meant to handle abusive or toxic relationships or people.
For instance:
Proverbs 22:24-25
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Romans 16:17-18
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple
Or even 2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Again, my entire point is thay the quoted Scripture is about how to handle it when you get in certain situations and how to treat others. It is not, despite how worldly people use it and frame it, a command to constantly open yourself up to abuse from the same people time and time again.