Colossians 3:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²¹ Fathers,  do not exasperate  your children, so that they won’t become discouraged.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or fret your children [do not be hard on them or harass them], lest they become discouraged and sullen and morose and feel inferior and frustrated. [Do not break their spirit.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Common English Bible

²¹ Parents, don’t provoke your children in a way that ends up discouraging them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

Colossians 3:21 Cross References

Proverbs 3:12

for the Lord disciplines the one he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, don’t stir up anger  in your children, but bring them up in the training  and instruction of the Lord.

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey your human  masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

As you know, like a father with his own children,