Colossians 3:19 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives [be affectionate and sympathetic with them] and do not be harsh or bitter or resentful toward them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and don’t be harsh with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter towards them.

Colossians 3:19 Cross References

Genesis 24:67

And 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live 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 labor which thou takest under the sun.

Luke 14:26

If 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.

Romans 3:14

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.