Colossians 3:19
17 And what soever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
- KJV
- Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- WEB
- Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
- ASV
- Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- DARBY
- Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- BLB
- Husbands, love [your] wives and do not be bitter toward them.
- ÅB
- Dere menn! elsk deres hustruer og vær ikke bitre mot dem!
- OTB
- Ektemenn, elsk deres hustruer og vær ikke slemme mot dem.
- B1930
- I menn! elsk eders hustruer og vær ikke bitre mot dem!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Read in contextGenesis 2:23–24
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.
Read in contextEphesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Read in contextColossians 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Read in contextEphesians 5:28–29
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Read in contextEphesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Read in contextEphesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Read in contextProverbs 5:18–19
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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