Your Daily Verse - Colossians 3:18-19
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King James Version (KJV)
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Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
English Standard Version (ESV)
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Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
New Living Translation (NLT)
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Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
The Message Bible (MSG)
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Husbands, go all out in love for your wives. Don't take advantage of them.
American Standard Version (ASV)
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Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
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Husbands, love your wives, and don't be harsh with them.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
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Husbands, love your wives and don't become bitter against them.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
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Husbands, love your wives. Don't be mean to them.
Colossians 3:19 Meaning and Commentary
Colossians 5:19
Husbands, love your wives (See Gill on Ephesians 5:25).
and be not bitter against them;
turning love into hatred of their persons; ruling with rigour, and in a tyrannical manner; behaving towards them in a morose, churlish, and ill natured way; giving them either bitter words, or blows, and denying them their affection, care, provision, protection, and assistance, but using them as servants, or worse. All which is barbarous, brutish, and unchristian, and utterly unbecoming the Gospel.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Colossians 3:19 In-Context
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And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
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Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
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Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
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Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.
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