Colossians 3:21 - English Standard Version 2016

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Colossians 3:21 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Psalm 103:13

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Proverbs 3:12

for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Colossians 3:22

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:11

For you know how, like a father with his children,