Colossians 3:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

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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

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that are given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Luke 14:26

“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.

Romans 3:14

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

Ephesians 4:31

Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they may lose heart.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman—though the weaker vessel, they are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.