A moment in scripture
Colossians 3:21
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Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
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The surrounding passage
- Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
- Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
- Colossians 3:23
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.