Colossians 3:19

World English Bible (2000)

Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
  • Gen 2:23-24 : 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man." 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated 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 life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
  • Rom 3:14 : 14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
  • Eph 5:28-29 : 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Col 3:21 : 21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 3:18
    84%

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

  • Eph 5:22-25
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    22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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

  • 1 Pet 3:1-3
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    79%

    1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

    2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.

    3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

  • 1 Pet 3:5-9
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    5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

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

    7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

    8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

    9 not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    77%

    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

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

    3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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

    33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    74%

    4 that 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 God's word may not be blasphemed.

  • Col 3:20-23
    4 verses
    73%

    20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

    21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

    22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

    23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

    11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    70%

    10 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

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

  • Eph 4:31
    69%

    31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

  • Eph 6:4-5
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    4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

  • Prov 5:18
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    18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  • 1 Tim 3:2-5
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    2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

    3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

    4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

    5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • Titus 2:9
    69%

    9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

  • Deut 22:13
    69%

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

  • Col 3:13
    68%

    13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

  • Gen 2:24
    68%

    24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 2:18
    68%

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

  • Titus 3:2
    68%

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

  • Ps 128:3
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    3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

  • 1 Cor 14:34
    68%

    34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

  • Matt 19:5
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    5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

  • Eph 4:26
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    26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,

  • 1 Cor 7:33
    67%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:13
    67%

    13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.