Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter towards them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth 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: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Proverbs 5:18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
Malachi 2:14And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.
Romans 3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular love his wife as himself: and let the wife 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 →