Colossians 3:21

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

"Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." - Colossians 3:21
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Colossians 3:21 in the King James Version of the Bible states, "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." This verse is part of a larger passage in the book of Colossians that focuses on the Christian's new life in Christ and the importance of…

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Colossians 3:21 - "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged."
Colossians 3:20-21 - "Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged."
Colossians 3:3
Colossians 2:21 - "(Touch not; taste not; handle not;"
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Colossians 3:13
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Colossians 3:3 - "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."
"(Touch not; taste not; handle not;" - Colossians 2:21
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Colossians 3:12-15
"Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged." - Colossians 3:20-21
Colossians 2:3 - "In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
Colossians 3:2 - "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
Colossians 3:19 - "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."
Colossians 3:6 - "For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
Colossians 3:14 - "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness."
Colossians 3:23 - "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"
Colossians 1:21 - "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled"
Colossians 3:18 - "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord."
"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." - Colossians 3:3
Colossians 3:7 - "In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them."
Colossians 3:20 - "Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord."
Colossians 3:24 - "Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."