Colossians 3:21 - Revised Version 1885

²¹ Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not 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 Tagairtí Cros

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 reproveth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Ephesians 6:4

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

Colossians 3:22

Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

1 Thessalonians 2:11

as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,