*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.
Husbands, love your wives - Notes, Ephesians 4:25-29.
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.
(11) Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.
(11) He requires of husbands that they love their wives, and treat them gently.
Husbands, love your wives,.... See Gill on Ephesians 5:25.
and be not bitter against them; turning love into hatred of their persons; ruling with rigour, and in a tyrannical manner; behaving towards them in a morose, churlish, and ill natured way; giving them either bitter words, or blows, and denying them their affection, care, provision, protection, and assistance, but using them as servants, or worse. All which is barbarous, brutish, and unchristian, and utterly unbecoming the Gospel.
(Ephesians 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.
Be not bitter - (Which may be without any appearance of anger) either in word or spirit.
*More commentary available at chapter level.