Colossians 3:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Colossians 3:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Genesis 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. …
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:28-29
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-25)

The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to relative duties, as before in the epistle to the Ephesians. The epistles which are most taken up in displaying the glory of divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular and distinct in pressing the duties of the several relations. We must never separate the privileges and duties of the gospel religion. I. He begins with…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. (Ep 5:22-33.) be not bitter--ill-tempered and provoking. Many who are polite abroad, are rude and bitter at home because they are not afraid to be so there.