Colossians 3:21

ESV

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

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Weakly Negative(0.373267365)

ESV - English Standard Version 2016

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

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Others Bible versions

Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or exasperate your children [with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by favoritism or indifference; treat them tenderly with lovingkindness], so they will not lose heart and become discouraged or unmotivated [with their spirits broken].

AMP - Amplified Bible

Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or fret your children [do not be hard on them or harass them], lest they become discouraged and sullen and morose and feel inferior and frustrated. [Do not break their spirit.]

AMPC - Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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

ASV - American Standard Version

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they won’t become discouraged.

CSB - Christian Standard Bible

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

DARBY - Darbys Translation 1890

You fathers, don't make your children mad, so they won't feel like giving up.

FBV - Free Bible Version

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become discouraged.

HCSB - Holman Christian Standard Bible

Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.

JUB - Jubilee Bible

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

KJV - King James Version

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

KJVAAE - King James Version with Apocrypha, American Edition

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

KJVAE - King James Version, American Edition

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

LEB - Lexham English Bible

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

MEV - Modern English Version

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

NASB1995 - New American Standard Bible - 1995

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

NASB2020 - New American Standard Bible

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

NET - New English Translation

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

NIV - New International Version

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

NIVUK - New International Version (Anglicised)

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

RV1885 - Revised Version 1885

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

RV1895 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895

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

YLT98 - Youngs Literal Translation 1898

Context - ESV

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

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Colossians 3:21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Sentiment: Weakly Negative(0.373267365)
Colossians 3:22

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

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Cross Reference - ESV