Colossians 3:21
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
In Context
20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:12for whom the LORD loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Ephesians 6:4You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Hebrews 12:5You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:19-25
Relative Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit 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 unto the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily,… Read the whole commentary →