Ephesians 6:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ And you, fathers, do not provoke your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Master.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Common English Bible

⁴ As for parents, don’t provoke your children to anger, but raise them with discipline and instruction about the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4 Cross References

Genesis 18:19

“For I have known him, so that he commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-ruling, so that יהוה  brings to Aḇ

1 Chronicles 28:20

And Dawiḏ

1 Chronicles 29:19

“And give my son Shelomoh a perfect heart to guard Your commands and Your witnesses and Your laws, to do all, and to build the palace for which I have prepared.”

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your son because there is expectation, And do not set your being on his destruction.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he turns not away from it.

Proverbs 29:15

A rod and reproof give wisdom, But a child unrestrained brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your son, And he brings you rest and delight to your life.

Isaiah 38:19

“The living, the living – he is praising You, as I do this day. A father makes known Your truth to his children.

Ephesians 6:3

in order that it might be well with you, and you might live long on the earth.”

Deuteronomy 4:9

“Only, guard yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 6:7

and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

2 Timothy 1:5

For I recollect the sincere belief which is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunike, and I am persuaded is in you too.

2 Timothy 3:15

and that from a babe you have known the Set-apart Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for deliverance through belief in Messiah יהושע.

Joshua 24:15

“And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve יהוה, choose for yourselves this day whom you are going to serve, whether the mighty ones which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But I and my house, we serve יהוה.”

Judges 13:12

And Manowaḥ