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World English Bible

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Husband;   Wife;   Thompson Chain Reference - Conjugal Love;   Family;   Home;   Love;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Love;   Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Husbands;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Husband;   Wife;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divorce;   Family Life and Relations;   Marriage;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Colossians;   Marriage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Christian Life;   Commandment;   Liberty;   Marriage;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Husband;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Sanctification;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bitter;   Essenes, the;   Wrath (Anger);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Marriage;  

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Guys, love your wives and don't be mean to them. This is your way of submitting to them.
Bible in Basic English
Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Darby Translation
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Christian Standard Bible®
Husbands, love your wives and don't be bitter toward them.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Weymouth's New Testament
Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.
King James Version (1611)
Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter against them.
Literal Translation
Husbands, love the wives and do not be bitter against them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye hussbandes, loue youre wyues, and be not bytter vnto them.
Mace New Testament (1729)
husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate them.
THE MESSAGE
Husbands, go all out in love for your wives. Don't take advantage of them.
Amplified Bible
Husbands, love your wives [with an affectionate, sympathetic, selfless love that always seeks the best for them] and do not be embittered or resentful toward them [because of the responsibilities of marriage].
American Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Revised Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Husbandes love youre wyves and be not bitter vnto them.
Update Bible Version
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter against them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.
Young's Literal Translation
the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
New Century Version
Husbands, love your wives and be gentle with them.
New English Translation
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
Berean Standard Bible
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Contemporary English Version
A husband must love his wife and not abuse her.
Complete Jewish Bible
Husbands, love your wives and don't treat them harshly.
English Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter vnto them.
George Lamsa Translation
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter toward them.
Hebrew Names Version
Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
Men, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Murdock Translation
Husbands, love ye your wives, and be not bitter towards them.
New King James Version
Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
New Living Translation
Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
New Life Bible
Husbands, love your wives. Do not hold hard feelings against them.
English Revised Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
New Revised Standard
Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.
King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Lexham English Bible
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Husbandes, loue your wyues, and be not bitter agaynst them:
Easy-to-Read Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be gentle to them.
New American Standard Bible
Husbands, love your wives and do not become bitter against them.
Good News Translation
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Men, loue ye youre wyues, and nyle ye be bittere to hem.

Contextual Overview

18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord, Christ. 25 For he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

love: Genesis 2:23, Genesis 2:24, Genesis 24:67, Proverbs 5:18, Proverbs 5:19, Ecclesiastes 9:9, Malachi 2:14-16, Luke 14:26, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:28, Ephesians 5:29, Ephesians 5:33, 1 Peter 3:7

bitter: Colossians 3:21, Romans 3:14, Ephesians 4:31, James 3:14

Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 7:33 - how

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:13
Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:21
Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
Genesis 23:4
"I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Job 1:21
He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
Job 19:26
After my skin is destroyed, Then in my flesh shall I see God,
Job 21:26
They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Husbands, love your wives,.... :-.

and be not bitter against them; turning love into hatred of their persons; ruling with rigour, and in a tyrannical manner; behaving towards them in a morose, churlish, and ill natured way; giving them either bitter words, or blows, and denying them their affection, care, provision, protection, and assistance, but using them as servants, or worse. All which is barbarous, brutish, and unchristian, and utterly unbecoming the Gospel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Husbands, love your wives ... - Notes, Ephesians 4:25-29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 19. Be 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.


 
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