Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Husbands, have love for 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.
American Standard Version
Husbands, love your wives, and be not 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.
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 under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord. 19 Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20 Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Peter 3:7
And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
Genesis 2:23-24
And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Proverbs 5:18-19
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
Malachi 2:14-16
But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.
Luke 14:26
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
Romans 3:14
Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:
Ephesians 5:28-29
Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
Ephesians 5:33
But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.