Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and use no asperity against them.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.
20Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Cross References
Romans 3:14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your own wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of 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 →