Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
A Conservative Version
Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.
Amplified
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].
An Understandable Version
You husbands should love your wives and not be harsh toward them.
Anderson New Testament
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Bible in Basic English
Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Common New Testament
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Daniel Mace New Testament
husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate them.
Darby Translation
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Godbey New Testament
Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.
Goodspeed New Testament
You who are husbands must love your wives and not be harsh to them.
John Wesley New Testament
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Julia Smith Translation
Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.
King James 2000
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
Modern King James verseion
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter against them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter unto them.
Moffatt New Testament
Husbands, love your wives, do not be harsh to them.
Montgomery New Testament
Husbands, be loving to your wives, and be not cross or surly with them.
NET Bible
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
New Heart English Bible
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter against them.
Noyes New Testament
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Sawyer New Testament
Husbands, love the wives and be not bitter to them.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Husbands, love your wives, and use no asperity against them.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Husbands, love your wives, and never treat them harshly.
Webster
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Weymouth New Testament
Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.
Williams New Testament
You husbands must continue to love your wives and stop being harsh with them.
World English Bible
Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
Worrell New Testament
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter toward them.
Worsley New Testament
and ye husbands, love your wives, and be not embittered against them.
Youngs Literal Translation
the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 3:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships
18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
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Cross References
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
1 Peter 3:7
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
Genesis 2:23-24
And the man 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.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
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.
Proverbs 5:18-19
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.
Malachi 2:14-16
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Luke 14:26
If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Romans 3:14
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ephesians 5:28-29
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife'see that she fear her husband.
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.