Colossians 3:19

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.”

— WEB

“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”

— KJV

“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”

— ASV

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

1 Peter 3:7 "You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being …"
Genesis 2:23-24 "The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”"
Colossians 3:21 "Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged."
Ephesians 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;"
Ephesians 5:28-29 "Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself."
Ephesians 4:31 "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice."
Ephesians 5:33 "Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband."
Proverbs 5:18-19 "Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth."

Commentary

(Eph 5:22-33.) be not bitter--ill-tempered and provoking. Many who are polite abroad, are rude and bitter at home because they are not afraid to be so there.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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