KJV King James Version
Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.
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Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
WEB World English Bible
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
ASV American Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
Surrounding context — Colossians 3
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
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:
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1 Peter 3:7Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.Genesis 2:23-24And 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.Colossians 3:21Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;Ephesians 5:28-29So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: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.Proverbs 5:18-19Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.Malachi 2:14-16Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.James 3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.Luke 14:26If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s [death].Romans 3:14Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:
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