Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 2:23And Adam said: “Now this is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. This one shall be called woman, because she was taken from man.”
Proverbs 5:18Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
Malachi 2:14And you have said, “What is the reason for this?” It is because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have despised. Yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.
Romans 3:14Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
Ephesians 5:33Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:19-25
Relative Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily,… Read the whole commentary →