Christian Households
Colossians 3:21
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
- KJV
- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
- WEB
- Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
- ASV
- Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
- LSV
- the fathers: do not distress your children, lest they be discouraged;
- YLT
- the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.
- DBY
- Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.
- DRC
- Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.
- GNV
- Fathers, prouoke not your children to anger, least they be discouraged.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- οἱ πατέρες, μὴ ἐρεθίζετε τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ ἀθυμῶσιν.
- RP2018
- Οἱ πατέρες, μὴ ἐρεθίζετε τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ ἀθυμῶσιν.
- TR-Boyd
- Οἱ πατέρες, μὴ ἐρεθίζετε τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ ἀθυμῶσιν.
- SCR1894
- οι πατερες μη ερεθιζετε τα τεκνα υμων ινα μη αθυμωσιν
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 4:1–4Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive. When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother, he…
- Ephesians 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Psalms 103:13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
- Proverbs 3:12for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:11For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
- Hebrews 12:5–11And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He…
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