Colossians 3:19
You married men, love your wives and don't treat them badly.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18You married women, respect your husbands appropriately in the Lord.
20You children, always do what your parents tell you because this is what pleases the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 2:23“Finally!” said Adam. “Here is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.”
Proverbs 5:18May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young.
Malachi 2:14“Why not?” you ask. Because the Lord witnessed the vows you and your wife exchanged when you were young. You were unfaithful to her, your wife and partner joined to you by marriage contract.
Romans 3:14Their mouths are full of bitterness and curses,
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, you should love your wives in the same way as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.
Ephesians 5:33However, each husband should love his own wife as he does himself, and the wife should 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 →