Colossians 3:19

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

Cross References

Genesis 24:67

And he led her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he accepted her as wife. And he loved her so very much, that it tempered the sorrow which befell him at his mother's death.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your uncertain life which have been given to you under the sun, during all the time of your vanity. For this is your portion in life and in your labor, with which you labor 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 yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.

Romans 3:14

Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and outcry and blasphemy be taken away from you, along with all malice.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,

Ephesians 5:33

Yet truly, each and every one of you should love his wife as himself. And a wife should fear her husband.

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

James 3:14

But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth.

1 Peter 3:7

Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.