Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
KJV
οἱ ἄνδρες, ἀγαπᾶτε τὰς γυναῖκας καὶ μὴ πικραίνεσθε πρὸς αὐτάς.
Greek NT
Viri, diligite uxores vestras, et nolite amari esse ad illas.
Vulgate
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
ASV
Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πικραίνω
pikraino
verb · 4×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ἀγαπάω
agapao
verb · 143×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2204"The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called a domestic church."9 It is a community of faith, hope, and charity; it assumes singular importance in the Church, as is evident in the New Testament.10
Those who have the gift of celibacy from heaven, so that from the heart or with their whole soul they are pure and continent and are not aflame with desire, let them serve the Lord in that calling, as long as they shall feel endued with that divine gift; and let them not lift up themselves above others, but let them serve the Lord continuously in simplicity and humility. But th…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:33 — But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
- 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
- 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
- Col 3:21 — Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
- Eccl 9:9 — Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in th
- Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
- Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
- Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
- Eph 5:28 — So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
- Eph 5:33 — Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
- Eph 5:33 — Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
- Gen 2:23 — 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.
- Jas 3:14 — But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
- Mal 2:14 — Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
- Prov 5:18 — Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.