Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 pleases the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 2:23The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
Proverbs 5:18Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Malachi 2:14Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
Romans 3:14“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects 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 →