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

Then said Adam, "This is once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called woman: because she was taken of the man."

Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.

Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth.

Use thy self to live joyfully with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life which is but vanity, that God hath given thee under the Sun; all the days of thy vanity. For that is thy portion in this life, of all thy labor and travail that thou takest under the Sun.

And yet ye say, 'Wherefore?' Even because that whereas the LORD made a covenant betwixt thee and the wife of thy youth, thou hast despised her: Yet is she thine own companion and married wife.

"If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Husbands: love your wives, even as Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself for it,

Likewise, ye men, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as unto them that are heirs also of the grace of life, that your prayers be not let.

Bitter

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

"Whose mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."

Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.