Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love ye your wives, and be not bitter towards them.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, be ye subject to your husbands, as is right in the Messiah.
20Children, obey your parents in every thing; for this is pleasing before our Lord.
Cross References
Romans 3:14Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as the Messiah loved his church, and delivered himself up for it;
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, let each of you severally so love his wife, even as himself: and let the wife 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 →