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Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.

Husbands {G435}, love {G25} your wives {G1135}, and {G2532} be {G4087} not {G3361} bitter {G4087} against {G4314} them {G846}.

Husbands, love your wives and don’t treat them harshly.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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Cross-References

  • 1 Peter 3:7 (43 votes)

    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.

  • Genesis 2:23 (28 votes)

    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.

  • Genesis 2:24 (28 votes)

    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Colossians 3:21 (25 votes)

    Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.

  • Ephesians 5:25 (23 votes)

    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

  • Ephesians 5:28 (16 votes)

    So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

  • Ephesians 5:29 (16 votes)

    For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: