Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 2:23And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man.
Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
Malachi 2:14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Romans 3:14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,
Ephesians 5:33But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear the 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 →