Commentaries:Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Colossians 3:19
Love your wives (agapate tav gunaikav). Present active imperative, "keep on loving." That is precisely the point.
Be not bitter (mh pikrainesqe). Present middle imperative in prohibition: "Stop being bitter" or "do not have the habit of being bitter." This is the sin of husbands. Pikrainw is an old verb from pikrov (bitter). In N.T. only here and Revelation 8:11; Revelation 10:9 f. The bitter word rankles in the soul.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Colossians 3:19:
Ephesians 5:25
Hebrews 3:8
Revelation 8:11
Revelation 10:9
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