Colossians 3:19
Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord;
20Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;
Cross References
Genesis 2:23And the man said, This, one, now, is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh! This, one shall be called Woman, for, out of a man, hath this one been taken.
Proverbs 5:18Let thy well-spring be blessed,—and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth:—
Malachi 2:14Yet ye say, For what cause? Because, Yahweh, hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, with whom, thou, hast dealt treacherously, though, she, was thy consort, and thy covenant wife.
Romans 3:14Whose mouth, of cursing and bitterness, is full,
Ephesians 5:25Ye husbands, be loving your wives, even as, the Christ also, loved the assembly, and delivered, himself, up in her behalf,
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, [see] that she 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 →