Colossians 3:19
Husbands, be loving to your wives, and be not cross or surly with them.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting for Christians.
20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.
Cross References
Romans 3:14Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,
Ephesians 5:33But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should 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 →