Verse 21

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they won’t become discouraged.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 6:4 : 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 Just as you know how we dealt with each one of you like a father with his own children,
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
  • Prov 3:12 : 12 For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father; pay attention so you may gain understanding. 2 For I give you good teaching; do not abandon my instruction. 3 When I was a son to my father, tender and the only one in the eyes of my mother, 4 he taught me and said to me, 'Let your heart hold onto my words; keep my commands, and you will live.'
  • Heb 12:5-9 : 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when you are reproved by Him." 6 For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He chastises every son He accepts. 7 If you endure discipline, God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! 10 Our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few days as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.