Colossians 3:21 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²¹ Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be 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

Psalm 103:13

Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

Proverbs 3:12

for whom the LORD loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Colossians 3:22

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,