Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
In Context
18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 2:23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Proverbs 5:18Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Malachi 2:14Yet all of you say, Wherefore? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
Romans 3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even 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 →