Colossians 3:21 - The Scriptures 1998

²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they 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

Psalm 103:13

As a father has compassion for his children, So יהוה  has compassion for those who fear Him.

Proverbs 3:12

For whom יהוה  loves He reproves, As a father the son whom he delights in.

Ephesians 6:4

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Master.

Colossians 3:22

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all respects, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing Elohim.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

even as you know how each one of you, as a father to his children, encouraging and comforting and bearing witness to you,