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Colossians 3:19

Colossians chapter 3 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

v.19This passage

v.20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ephesians 5:25

    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

  • Genesis 2:23

    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.

  • Proverbs 5:18

    Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

  • Genesis 24:67

    And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

  • Malachi 2:14

    Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

  • Colossians 3:21

    Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.