Colossians 3:19 · KJV
“Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.”
— Colossians 3:19
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Children, obey {your} parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Colossians 3 — Context
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, {do} all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
19Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.
20Children, obey {your} parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
21Fathers, provoke not your children {to anger}, lest they be discouraged.
Cross References
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with {them} according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Genesis 2:23-24
And Adam said, This {is} now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. {Woman: Heb. Isha} {Man: Heb. Ish}
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children {to anger}, lest they be discouraged.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:28-29
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife {see} that she reverence {her} husband.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Proverbs 5:18-19
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.