An abusive spouse who once released from 'jail' and who proceeds to injure or kill his wife will not be hindered by a restraining order, even if it is associated with legal separation or divorce. Any emotional appeal, then, to separation or divorce as a deterrent is fallacious. It also is not a biblical remedy to reason that somehow separation or divorce offers that kind of protection from an abusive spouse. Let's look at the situation from another perspective. Sin results whenever a divorce occurs.
Every divorce is attributable to the sin of at least one and often both spouses.
It amounts to a certificate of divorce. Still another Greek word used for divorce in the New Testament is chorizo . Hence, several Greek words referring to divorce and variously translated into English are used in the New Testament to refer to various stages of marital estrangement. Biblically, the wife who leaves her husband to protect herself or her children from physical abuse is no less innocent than the wife who is innocent because of divorce due to her husband's adultery or the wife who is innocent of divorce when deserted by her husband. However, only in the case of spousal adultery does Scripture grant the innocent spouse the permission to marry another eligible candidate later.