Colossians 3:19
Colossians · New Testament · Chapter 3
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”Colossians 3:19
What Does Colossians 3:19 Mean?
Colossians 3:19 is found in the book of Colossians, chapter 3, verse 19 of the New Testament. This verse connects to 15 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Marriage.
Cross-References (15)
These passages are connected to Colossians 3:19 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
1 Peter 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 hindered.”Ephesians 5:25“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”Genesis 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.”Colossians 3:21“Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”Ephesians 5:28“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”Ephesians 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.”Ephesians 4:31“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”Proverbs 5:18“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”1 Corinthians 7:33“But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.”Ecclesiastes 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 thy labour which thou takest under the sun.”Malachi 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.”Genesis 24:67“And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.”Luke 14:26“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”James 3:14“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”Romans 3:14“Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:”
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