Colossians 3:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας, καὶ μὴ πικραίνεσθε πρὸς αὐτάς.

Transliteration

The andres, agapate the gynaikas, and not pikrainesthe against them.

Grammar Details

• *andres*: nominative, masculine, plural - husbands/men
• *agapate*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - love
• *gynaikas*: accusative, feminine, plural - wives/women
• *mē*: negative particle with imperative - do not
• *pikrainesthe*: present passive imperative, 2nd person plural - be bitter
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - toward/against
• *autas*: accusative, feminine, plural pronoun - them

Word Meanings

• *andres*: husbands/men
• *agapate*: love/show love/cherish
• *gynaikas*: wives/women
• *pikrainesthe*: be bitter/harsh/resentful toward

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, {G2532} 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 {G2596} ye also severally {G3779} 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.