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Selected Verse: Colossians 3:19 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Col 3:19 |
King James |
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Eph 5:22-33.)
be not bitter--ill-tempered and provoking. Many who are polite abroad, are rude and bitter at home because they are not afraid to be so there. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Husbands, love your wives ... - Notes, Eph 4:25-29. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Be not bitter (μὴ πικραίνεσθε)
Lit., be not embittered. Used only here by Paul. Elsewhere only in Revelation. The compounds παραπικραίνω to exasperate, and παραπικρασμός provocation, occur only in Heb 3:16; Heb 3:8, Heb 3:15. Compare Eph 4:31. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Be not bitter - (Which may be without any appearance of anger) either in word or spirit. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Be not bitter against them - Wherever bitterness is, there love is wanting. And where love is wanting in the married life, there is hell upon earth. |
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.