Colossians 3:21 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Colossians 3:21 Cross References

Psalm 103:13

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

Proverbs 3:12

for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Colossians 3:22

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

1 Thessalonians 2:11

as ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,