Colossians Chapter 3 verse 19 Holy Bible
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
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Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.
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Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
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Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
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Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
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the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Ye husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them (Ephesians 5:25-31; 1 Peter 3:7). "Love" is ἀγαπάω, the word which expresses the highest spiritual affection - "even as Christ loved the Church" (Ephesians 5:25). Here, first and most of all, the "new commandment" of John 13:34 applies. St. Paul only uses the verb πικραίνω ("to make bitter") here, but he has the noun πικρία ("bitterness") in a wider application in Ephesians 4:31. It denotes "exasperation," prompting to hasty severity. Bengel defines it as "odium amori mixtum" - hatred infused into love.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Be not bitter.--Properly, grow not bitter, suffer not yourselves to be exasperated. The word is used metaphorically only in this passage, literally in Revelation 8:11; Revelation 10:9-10.
