21Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.


In Context

18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

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

22 Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.

23 Whatsoever ye do, labour at it heartily, as doing it to the Lord, and not to men;

Colossians 3:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger,] lest they be discouraged.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:21the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.