“Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Colossians 3 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.