Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:18And thy fountain shall be blessed, Yea, thou shalt have joy in the wife of thy youth.
Malachi 2:14Yet ye say, “Wherefore?” It is because Jehovah has been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, Against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully, Although she was thy companion and thy covenanted wife.
Romans 3:14Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it,
Ephesians 5:33However, do ye also severally love each one his own wife 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 →