Colossians 3:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Colossians 3:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 4:1-4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. …
Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Psalms 103:13
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
Proverbs 3:12
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Hebrews 12:5-11
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-25)

The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to relative duties, as before in the epistle to the Ephesians. The epistles which are most taken up in displaying the glory of divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular and distinct in pressing the duties of the several relations. We must never separate the privileges and duties of the gospel religion. I. He begins with…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. (Ep 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].