New Revised Standard Version
Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they may lose heart.

Contemporary English Version
Parents, don't be hard on your children. If you are, they might give up.

New American Bible
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they may not become discouraged.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

Psalm 103:13 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him:

Proverbs 3:12 Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:

Proverbs 4:1-4 I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law. . . .

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Ephesians 6:4 And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:11 As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),

Hebrews 12:5-11 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. . . .