Colossians 3:19

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
  • Gen 2:23-24 : 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. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
  • Gen 24:67 : 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.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. 19 [ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 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. 15 And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • Rom 3:14 : 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
  • Eph 5:28-29 : 28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself: 29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.
  • Col 3:21 : 21 Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 3:18
    84%

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

  • Eph 5:22-25
    4 verses
    79%

    22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.

    24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

  • 1 Pet 3:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

    2beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.

    3Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

  • 1 Pet 3:5-9
    5 verses
    77%

    5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

    6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

    7Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

    8Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

    9not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

  • Eph 5:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

    28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

    29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

  • Eph 5:32-33
    2 verses
    76%

    32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

    33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

  • Titus 2:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • Col 3:20-23
    4 verses
    73%

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

    21Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

    22Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord: [

    23whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

    12Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

  • Eph 4:31
    69%

    31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

  • Eph 6:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

    5Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

  • Prov 5:18
    69%

    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

  • 1 Tim 3:2-5
    4 verses
    69%

    2The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

    3no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

    4one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;

    5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

  • Titus 2:9
    69%

    9[ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;

  • Deut 22:13
    69%

    13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

  • Col 3:13
    68%

    13forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

  • Gen 2:24
    68%

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 2:18
    68%

    18Servants, [be] in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

  • Titus 3:2
    68%

    2to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

  • Ps 128:3
    68%

    3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

  • 1 Cor 14:34
    68%

    34let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

  • Matt 19:5
    68%

    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

  • Eph 4:26
    67%

    26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

  • 1 Cor 7:33
    67%

    33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

  • 1 Cor 7:13
    67%

    13And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.