Colossians 3:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 In the same way, you husbands, live with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it;
  • Gen 2:23-24 : 23 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. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. 15 And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce; for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, 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 So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Col 3:21 : 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 3:18
    84%

    18Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  • Eph 5:22-25
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    79%

    22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.

    24Therefore just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

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

  • 1 Pet 3:1-3
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    79%

    1In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the word, they may also be won without a word by the conduct of their wives;

    2While they observe your pure conduct with reverence.

    3Let your beauty not be the outward adornment of braiding hair, wearing gold, or putting on apparel;

  • 1 Pet 3:5-9
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    5For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands:

    6Just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any fear.

    7In the same way, you husbands, live with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

    8Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;

    9Not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    28So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    29For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

    4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

  • Eph 5:32-33
    2 verses
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    32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • Titus 2:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

  • Col 3:20-23
    4 verses
    73%

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

    21Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

    22Servants, obey in all things your earthly masters, not with eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing God.

    23And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men.

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

    11In the same way, their wives must be dignified, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    70%

    10And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

    11But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

  • Eph 4:31
    69%

    31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

  • Eph 6:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

    5Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

  • Prov 5:18
    69%

    18Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

  • 1 Tim 3:2-5
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    2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

    3Not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy for dishonest gain; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

    4One who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all respectfulness;

    5For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

  • Titus 2:9
    69%

    9Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering back;

  • Deut 22:13
    69%

    13If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and hates her,

  • Col 3:13
    68%

    13Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

  • Gen 2:24
    68%

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

  • 1 Pet 2:18
    68%

    18Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.

  • Titus 3:2
    68%

    2To speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.

  • Ps 128:3
    68%

    3Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your children like olive plants around your table.

  • 1 Cor 14:34
    68%

    34Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.

  • Matt 19:5
    68%

    5And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

  • Eph 4:26
    67%

    26Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

  • 1 Cor 7:33
    67%

    33But he who is married cares about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:13
    67%

    13And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, and he is willing to live with her, let her not leave him.