Parallel Verses
Daniel Mace New Testament
husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate 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.
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.
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 Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians. 19 husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate them. 20 children, obey your parents upon all occasions, for that is graceful in a christian.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 5:25
You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her:
1 Peter 3:7
You husbands, do you on your part behave with prudence towards your wives: who being of a more delicate make, ought to be treated with the greater tenderness: and consider they are equally intitled to the evangelical gifts, that your prayers may not be frustrated.
Ephesians 4:31
banish all resentment and indignation, anger, vehemence, detraction, and every thing like malice.
Luke 14:26
and said, he that can't abandon his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, nay, even his own life, cannot be my disciple.
Romans 3:14
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Ephesians 5:28-29
in like manner ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: "he that loves his wife, loveth himself."
Ephesians 5:33
wherefore let every one of you without exception, love his wife even as himself; and let the wife respect her husband.
Colossians 3:21
fathers, don't treat your children with severity, lest they be discourag'd.
James 3:14
but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth: