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Colossians 3:21
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Colossians 3:21
21Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
21Fathers, prouoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
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Colossians 3:21
To stir up or incite, whether to anger or to action.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Strong displeasure or indignation; as a verb, to provoke to such displeasure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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discouraged
Disheartened; deprived of courage or confidence; depressed in spirits; dejected; checked.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study1HEAR, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
2For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
3For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
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Open the full verse study4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study13Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
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Open the full verse study12For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
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Open the full verse study11As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
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Open the full verse study5And 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:
6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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