Colossians 3:21
Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
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Referenced Verses
- Eph 6:4 : 4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
- Ps 103:13 : 13 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
- Prov 3:12 : 12 for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
- Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; 2 for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law. 3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
- Heb 12:5-9 : 5 and you 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; 6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives." 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
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