Bullying can take many forms and can be effective on different levels but that doesn't make it any better or worse for what the out come can lead to. Kids in schools, online, at the park, work, anywhere they go, you go they are being bullied for many reasons and some of those top reasons are as followed, Religion & Beliefs, Gay, Straight, Lesbian, Bi Sexual & Transgendered, Looks & Appearance, Cool or Not Cool, Nerd, Geeks, Just simply being Smart, Having a Disability, Disease, Medical Problems and Not Fitting In, Skin Color. These are the top reason kids are being bullied everyday and why it leads to depression.
Depression it lowers their confidence, self-esteem, courage, happiness, and self worth. It makes these kids feel all those things even unwanted, ugly or to pretty, to skinny or to fat, to tall or to short, sexuality of any kind, the color of their skin, beliefs & religion, who's better or who's less, smarter or not smarter, not loved, wanted, cared about. Those are the effect that leads these kids to depression to them cutting themselves, starting to starve their bodies or over eat and load their bodies because they have been told to many times they are to fat or to skinny, they wish they were taller or shorter, smarter or not so smart, they weren't that skin tone, they were never born, that they can change their beliefs & religion, looks & appearance etc. The list goes on and on never ending. Kids are afraid to talk to friends, family, teachers, any adult about the bullying, abuse they take on daily at school or anywhere because they are afraid no one will care, will help them, protect them so they keep it all inside and they do what they feel is the only Freedom.
Suicide is the end freedom for the kids that have been through bullying , depression, the whole thing with out any help, no one caring, hearing their cries for help. For those that feel like committing suicide they think in their mind it's the only way it will ever stop, it frees me from the pain, the hurting, the depression, and so these kids go unheard and unseen planning their suicide with out anyone knowing and some just come home one day and do it with out planning. There is many ways kids and people commit suicide which is as followed- Hanging themselves, Shooting themselves, Jumping of the roof of their homes or school buildings, walking in front of on coming traffic and many other ways.
back in 2010 I kept up with suicide stories and those that of which I knew of where any where between 15-18 that happened back to back in weeks, those kids made national news. There is one out of all those kids that I hold close and dear to my heart for many reasons. I didn't know this young boy or his family but his story is what touched me the most. He is always thought about and missed. I remember ever detail of why he was bullied in school and the way he killed himself. He was a local Cypress kid that attend Hamilton Middle School, he was 13 years old in the 8th grade was bullied for being Buddhist, small for his age, not being into all the high cool electronics, not wearing the latest fashion but most of all he was made fun of because he was thought to have been Gay which he never came out until the morning of his death. He came out to his Step-father that morning before leaving to go get on the bus and that day after school he went home grabbed his father's gun and went and hid in his closet and shot himself in the head. His parents came home to find his small body laying on the floor of his closet, now if that story doesn't touch you in anyway. That's just wrong. His school claimed not to have gotten any reports from his teachers or anyone not even his parents. His name was Asher Brown and to this day he is remembered and miss and loved by those that knew him and that didn't.
Now I will share bible verses about Bullying, Depression, & Suicide.
Bullying biblical verses-
Matthew 5:11
God will bless you when people insult you, mistreat you, and tell all kinds of evil lies about you because of me.
Deuteronomy 31:6
So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Psalm 121:2
It will come from the Lord, who created the heavens and the earth.
Psalm 27:1
You, Lord, are the light that keeps me safe. I am not afraid of anyone. You protect me, and I have no fears.
Love Your Neighbor
Bullying goes against everything in the Bible. We are called to kindness. We are asked to be hospitable and look out for one another, so turning on another person does little to demonstrate God's love to one another:1 John 3:15
If you hate each other, you are murderers, and we know that murderers do not have eternal life.
1 John 2:9
If we claim to be in the light and hate someone, we are still in the dark.
Mark 12:31
And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
Romans 12:18
Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.
James 4:11-12
My friends, don’t say cruel things about others! If you do, or if you condemn others, you are condemning God’s Law. And if you condemn the Law, you put yourself above the Law and refuse to obey either it or God who gave it. God is our judge, and he can save or destroy us. What right do you have to condemn anyone?
Matthew 7:12
Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.
Romans 15:7
Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.
Love Your Enemies
Some of the hardest people to love are those that hurt us. Yet God asks us to love our enemies. We may not like the behavior, but even that bully is still a bully. Does that mean we just let them continue to bully us? No. We still need to stand up against bullying and report the behavior, but it does mean learning to take the higher road:Matthew 5:38-41
You have heard the law that says the punishment must match the injury: ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say, do not resist an evil person! If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer the other cheek also. If you are sued in court and your shirt is taken from you, give your coat, too. If a soldier demands that you carry his gear for a mile, carry it two miles.
Matthew 5:43-48
You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 10:28
Don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Leave the Vengeance to God
When someone bullies us, it can be tempting to retaliate in a similar manner. Yet God reminds us in His Word that we need to leave the vengeance to Him. We still need to report the bullying. We still need to stand up to those that bully others, but we should not retaliate in the same way. God brings us adults and authority figures to deal with the bully:Leviticus 19:18
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.
2 Timothy 1:7
God’s Spirit doesn’t make cowards out of us. The Spirit gives us power, love, and self-control.
Romans 12:19-20
Dear friends, don’t try to get even. Let God take revenge. In the Scriptures the Lord says, “I am the one to take revenge and pay them back.” The Scriptures also say, “If your enemies are hungry, give them something to eat. And if they are thirsty, give them something to drink. This will be the same as piling burning coals on their heads.”
Proverbs 6:16-19
There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Matthew 7:2
For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.
Depression biblical verses-
Deuteronomy 31:8
It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
Deuteronomy 32:10
In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
Psalms 34:17
When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 40:1-3
I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.
Psalms 3:3
But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Psalms 32:10
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.
Psalms 37:3-4
Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalms 42:11
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
1 Peter 5:6-7
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
Romans 8:38-39
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians
1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
1 Peter 4:12-13
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
Suicide Biblical Verses-
Ecclesiastes 7:17 - Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwell in you?
Psalms 34:17-20 - [The righteous] cry, and the LORD hearth, and deliverers them out of all their troubles.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Psalms 13:2-4 - How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
John 10:28 - And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.
1 Corinthians 6:20 - For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
2 Corinthians 12:9 - And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Job 7:15-16 - So that my soul choose strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
Revelation 9:6 - And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Mark 16:16 - He that believe and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believe not shall be damned.
Jeremiah 20:14-18 - Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Exodus 20:13 - Thou shalt not kill.
2 Samuel 17:23 - And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gate him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
1 Samuel 31:5 - And when his armorers saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
1 Samuel 31:4 - Then said Saul unto his armorers, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armorers would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
Judges 9:53-54 - And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abolishes head, and all to brake his skull.
Hebrews 13:5-6 - [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
John 12:25 - He that love his life shall lose it; and he that hate his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Mark 5:1-43 - And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gardeners.
Matthew 27:3-5 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Matthew 4:6 - And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in [their] hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
1 Kings 16:18 - And it came to pass, when Zara saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
Judges 16:30 - And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he slew in his life.
Revelation 1:1-20 - The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John:
1 John 3:15 - Whosoever hated his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Acts 16:27 - And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Jeremiah 16:19 - O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.
Judges 16:25-30 - And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
So I say unto you these are all the biblical verses of the bible on Bullying, Depression & Suicide.
Stand Up For Those Victims!!
God Bless
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