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Colossians 3:19
19Husbands, love your wives and do not become harsh toward them.
Colossians 3:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- New International Version (NIV)Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
Context of Colossians 3:19
17And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Yeshua, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. 18Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not become harsh toward them. 20Children, obey your parents in every respect, for this is pleasing to the Lord. 21Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
Read all of Colossians 3Colossians 3:19 word by word
Οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας καὶ μὴ πικραίνεσθε πρὸς αὐτάς.¶Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Colossians 3:19
- Genesis 2:23Then the man said, “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one is called woman, for from man was taken this one.”
- Genesis 24:67Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, took Rebekah and she became his wife—and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after the loss of his mother.
- Proverbs 5:18May your fountain be blessed and may you delight in the wife of your youth.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyously with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life that He has given you under the sun during all your fleeting days—for this is your portion in life and in your toil that you labor under the sun.
- Malachi 2:14Yet you say, “Why?” Because Adonai bears witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have treated deceitfully. Yet she had been your companion and your wife by covenant.
- Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—and yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives just as Messiah also loved His community and gave Himself up for her
- 1 Peter 3:7In the same way, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way. Though they are weaker partners, honor them as equal heirs of the grace of life. In this way, your prayers will not be hindered.
- Colossians 3:21Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
- Romans 3:14Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
- Ephesians 4:31Get rid of all bitterness and rage and anger and quarreling and slander, along with all malice.
- James 3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
Commentaries on Colossians 3:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Be not bitter against them - Wherever bitterness is, there love is wanting. And where love is wanting in the married life, there is hell upon earth.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19Husbands, love your wives - Notes, Ephesians 4:25-29.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 The epistles most taken up in displaying the glory of the Divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular in pressing the duties of the Christian life. We must never separate the privileges and duties of the gospel. Submission is the duty of wives. But it is submission, not to a severe lord or stern tyrant, but to her own husband, who is engaged to affectionate duty. And husbands must love their wives with tender and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19After instructing wives to submit to their husbands, the Paul encourages husbands to love their wives (see also Ephesians 5:25–30; 1 Peter 3:7).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. (Ep 5:22-33.) be not bitter--ill-tempered and provoking. Many who are polite abroad, are rude and bitter at home because they are not afraid to be so there.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Colossians 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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