Colossians 3:21
“Fathers, prouoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”
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Colossians 3:21 Context
19Husbands, loue your wiues, and be not bitter against them. 20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing vnto the Lord. 21Fathers, prouoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 22Seruants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not with eye seruice as men pleasers, but in singlenesse of heart, fearing God: 23And whatsoeuer yee doe, doe it heartily, as to the Lord, and not vnto men:
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Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.
- King James Version
Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.
- New American Standard Version (1995)