Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, subordinate yourselves to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in everything, because this is well pleasing in the Lord.
Cross References
Romans 3:14“whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your own wives just as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up on her behalf,
Ephesians 5:33In any case, each of you individually: let each one love his own wife as himself, while the wife must respect 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 →