Colossians 3:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
  • Eph 5:25 : 25 The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,
  • Gen 2:23-24 : 23 and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken; 24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
  • Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after `the death of' his mother.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, 19 A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife. 15 And He did not make one `only', And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what `is' the one `alone'! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously. 16 For `I' hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He `who' hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;
  • Rom 3:14 : 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
  • Eph 5:28-29 : 28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love; 29 for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.
  • Col 3:21 : 21 the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 3:18
    84%

    18The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

  • Eph 5:22-25
    4 verses
    79%

    22The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

    24but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

    25The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

  • 1 Pet 3:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

    2having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

    3whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

  • 1 Pet 3:5-9
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    5for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

    6as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

    7The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

    8And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

    9not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    77%

    28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

    29for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

  • 1 Cor 7:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

    3to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

    4the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

  • Eph 5:32-33
    2 verses
    76%

    32this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

    33but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

  • Titus 2:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,

    5sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

  • Col 3:20-23
    4 verses
    73%

    20the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

    21the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

    22The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

    23and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,

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

    11Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

    12Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

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

    10and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

    11but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

  • Eph 4:31
    69%

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

  • Eph 6:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

    5The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

  • Prov 5:18
    69%

    18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

  • 1 Tim 3:2-5
    4 verses
    69%

    2it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

    3not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

    4his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

    5(and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

  • Titus 2:9
    69%

    9Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

  • Deut 22:13
    69%

    13`When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

  • Col 3:13
    68%

    13forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;

  • Gen 2:24
    68%

    24therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 2:18
    68%

    18The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

  • Titus 3:2
    68%

    2of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

  • Ps 128:3
    68%

    3Thy wife `is' as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

  • 1 Cor 14:34
    68%

    34Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

  • Matt 19:5
    68%

    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

  • Eph 4:26
    67%

    26be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

  • 1 Cor 7:33
    67%

    33and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:13
    67%

    13and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;