Colossians 3:21 KJV — MannaFest

Colossians 3:21

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

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ASV

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

WEB

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.

YLT

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

DBT

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

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Colossians — Christ is preeminent — creator and sustainer, the head of the body, the reconciler of all things. Against every philosophy and empty deceit, the full sufficiency of Christ.

Author: Paul, with Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 60–62, from Roman imprisonment

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Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Proverbs 4:1–4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Psalms 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 correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

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3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. The apostle, having described our privileges by Christ in the former part of the epistle, and our discharge from the yoke of the ceremonial law, comes here to press upon us our duty as inferred thence.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And it is by the tenderness of parents, and dutifulness of children, that God ordinarily furnishes his church with a seed to serve him, and propagates religion from age to age.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(Eph 6:4.) It is a different Greek verb, therefore translate here, "irritate not." By perpetual fault-finding "children" are "discouraged" or "disheartened." A broken-down spirit is fatal to youth [BENGEL].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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