Colossians 3:21
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Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
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(Eph 6:4.) It is a different Greek verb, therefore translate here, "irritate not." By perpetual fault-finding "children" are "discouraged" or "disheartened." A broken-down spirit is fatal to youth [BENGEL].
Open source ↗I. The apostle exhorts us to set our hearts upon heaven and take them off from this world (Col 3:1-4). II. He exhorts to the mortification of sin, in the various instances of it (Col 3:5-11). III. He earnestly presses to mutual love and compassion (Col 3:12-17). And concludes with exhortations to relative duties, of wives and husbands, parents and children, masters and servants (Col 3:18-25).
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Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—