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


In Context

18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

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

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

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

22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

23 Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as 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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:21Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

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.