"For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes advantage of you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone hits you in the face." 2Cor. 11:20

 There are many forces in this world that will seek to do all of the above; our minds may go first to the domestic arena, but these hazards lie in all of life including religion. 

"Be wise as a serpent."