Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter toward them.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing, in the Lord.
Cross References
Romans 3:14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, as also Christ loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence 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 →