Colossians 3:19
Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter vnto them.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wiues, submit your selues vnto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in all thing for that is well pleasing vnto the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 2:23Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
Malachi 2:14Yet yee say, Wherein? Because the Lord hath beene witnesse betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast transgressed: yet is shee thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant.
Romans 3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it,
Ephesians 5:33Therefore euery one of you, doe ye so: let euery one loue his wife, euen as himselfe, and let the wife see that shee feare 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 →