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


In Context

18 The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

19 the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

20 the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

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

22 The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

23 and all, whatever ye may do — out of soul work — 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 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 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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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