Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, be in subjection 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 the man said, This is now 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 fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
Malachi 2:14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Romans 3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she 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 →