Colossians 3:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 6:4 : 4 And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.
  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.
  • Prov 3:12 : 12 For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding. 2 For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not. 3 For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother. 4 And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
  • Heb 12:5-9 : 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, 6 for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' 7 if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? 8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. 9 Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? 10 for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; 11 and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

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    2honour thy father and mother,

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    18`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

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    22The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

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    6because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

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  • Prov 23:22
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    22Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

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    26be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

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    6Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

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    11Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

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    13and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

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    4for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;