Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they be discouraged.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged.
A Conservative Version
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.
American Standard Version
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
Amplified
Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or exasperate your children [with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by favoritism or indifference; treat them tenderly with lovingkindness], so they will not lose heart and become discouraged or unmotivated [with their spirits broken].
An Understandable Version
You fathers [Note: By implication, this would include both parents] should not stir up your children [i.e., irritate or exasperate them], so that they do not become discouraged.
Anderson New Testament
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be disheartened.
Bible in Basic English
Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.
Common New Testament
Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they will become discouraged.
Daniel Mace New Testament
fathers, don't treat your children with severity, lest they be discourag'd.
Darby Translation
Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.
Godbey New Testament
Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged.
Goodspeed New Testament
Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.
John Wesley New Testament
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Julia Smith Translation
Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.
King James 2000
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.
Moffatt New Testament
Fathers, avoid irritating your children, in case they get dispirited.
Montgomery New Testament
Fathers, do not harass your children, lest you make them spiritless.
NET Bible
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.
New Heart English Bible
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
Noyes New Testament
Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged.
Sawyer New Testament
Fathers, be not fault-finding with your children, that they be not discouraged.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye fathers! be not irritating your children, lest they be disheartened;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Fathers, never irritate your children, lest they should become disheartened.
Webster
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Weymouth New Testament
Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.
Williams New Testament
Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.
World English Bible
Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
Worrell New Testament
Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be disheartened.
Worsley New Testament
and ye fathers, do not irritate your children, least they be discouraged.
Youngs Literal Translation
the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.
Themes
Anger » Children should not be provoked to
Children » Parents, duty to » To nurture
Fathers » Duties of » To nurture
Home » special duties of parents » To nurture
Parents » Their duty to their children is » Not to provoke them
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 3:21
Images Colossians 3:21
Prayers for Colossians 3:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships
20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they be discouraged. 22 Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Phrases
Cross References
Ephesians 6:4
And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Psalm 103:13
As a father pities his children, Jehovah pities those who fear Him.
Proverbs 3:12
for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 4:1-4
Sons, hear the instruction of a father, and listen in order to know understanding.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
even as you know how we exhorted and comforted and testified to each one of you, as a father to his children,
Hebrews 12:5-11
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;