Colossians 3:19 - The Scriptures 1998

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

More versions

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.

Colossians 3:19 Cross References

Genesis 24:67

And Yitsḥ

Ecclesiastes 9:9

See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of futility. For that is your share in life, and in your toil which you have laboured under the sun.

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and his own life too, he is unable to be My taught one.

Romans 3:14

“Whose mouth is filled with cursing and bitterness.”

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and displeasure, and uproar, and slander be put away from you, along with all evil.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah also did love the assembly and gave Himself for it,

Ephesians 5:33

However, you too, everyone, let each one love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she fears her husband.

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast against and lie against the truth.

1 Peter 3:7

In the same way, husbands, live understandingly together, giving respect to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the favour of life, so that your prayers are not hindered.