Colossians 3:19

A Conservative Version

Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

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.

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.

Luke 14:26

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Romans 3:14

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.