Colossians 3:19
Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Ye wives, submit to your husbands as is becoming in the Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Cross References
Romans 3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;
Ephesians 5:33Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the 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 →