Parallel Verses
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.
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 subject to your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord.
19
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives even as the Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself for her,
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them wisely, giving honour unto the woman, as unto a more fragile vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers not be 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 clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent and took Rebekah as his wife; and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Proverbs 5:18-19
Thy fountain shall be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou dost love all the days which thou art to live in this lake of vanity, which are given unto thee; all the days of thy vanity under the sun: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour in which thou dost work under the sun.
Malachi 2:14-16
Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she is thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.
Luke 14:26
If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Romans 3:14
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
Ephesians 5:28-29
So ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, let each one of you do likewise, let each one so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverences her husband.
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.