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Colossians 3:21

Ye fathers! be not irritating your children, lest they be disheartened;

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Colossians 3:21 in other translations

KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

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

WEB World English Bible

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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18 Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord;

19 Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;

20 Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;

21 Ye fathers! be not irritating your children, lest they be disheartened;

22 Ye servants! be obedient, in all things, unto them who, according to the flesh, are your masters,—not with eye-service, as man-pleasers, but with singleness of heart, revering the Lord,—

23 Whatsoever ye may be doing, from the soul, be working at it, as unto the Lord, and not unto men,-

24 Knowing that, from the Lord, ye shall duly receive the recompense of the inheritance,—unto the Lord Christ, are ye in service;

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