Colossians 3:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 6:4 : 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on his faithful followers.
  • Prov 3:12 : 12 For the LORD disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment. 2 Because I hereby give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching. 3 When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother, 4 he taught me, and he said to me:“Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.
  • Heb 12:5-9 : 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you. 6 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.” 7 Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? 8 But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons. 9 Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life? 10 For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness. 11 Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

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    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

    2“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

    3“that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

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    19Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

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  • Deut 21:18
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    18If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

  • Prov 3:11
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    11My child, do not despise discipline from the LORD, and do not loathe his rebuke.

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    22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in every respect, not only when they are watching– like those who are strictly people-pleasers– but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.

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    6Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

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  • Prov 23:22
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    22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Eph 4:26
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    26Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

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    8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

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    8“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

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    25A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

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  • Mal 4:6
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    6He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”

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    11As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

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    9Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

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    20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

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    20A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

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    21My child, do not let them escape from your sight; safeguard sound wisdom and discretion.

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    13But you, brothers and sisters, do not grow weary in doing what is right.

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    4For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’