Colossians 3:19

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Summary

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Love

Bitter

Bible References

Love

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.

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.

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your share in this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.

Yet you say, Why? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your covenant wife.

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

Bitter

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they be discouraged.

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;"

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.