Ephesians 6:4
Good News Translation
Parents, do not treat your children in such a way as to make them angry. Instead, raise them with Christian discipline and instruction.

New Revised Standard Version
And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Parents, don't be hard on your children. Raise them properly. Teach them and instruct them about the Lord.

New American Bible
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up with the training and instruction of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Genesis 31:14,15 And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house? . . .

1 Samuel 20:30-34 Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother? . . .

Colossians 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

but.

Genesis 18:19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Exodus 12:26,27 And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service? . . .

Exodus 13:14,15 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. . . .

Deuteronomy 4:9 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 6:7,20-24 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising. . . .

Deuteronomy 11:19-21 Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up. . . .

Joshua 4:6,7 That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones? . . .

Joshua 4:21-24 And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones? . . .

Joshua 24:15 But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve thee Lord,

1 Chronicles 22:10-13 He shall build a house to my name, and he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him: and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:9,10,20 And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. . . .

1 Chronicles 29:19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, that he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all things: and build the house, for which I have provided the charges.

Psalm 71:17 Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful works.

Psalm 71:18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Psalm 78:4-7 They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done. . . .

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

Proverbs 19:18 Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Proverbs 22:6,15 It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it. . . .

Proverbs 23:13,14 Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. . . .

Proverbs 29:15,17 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame. . . .

Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.

2 Timothy 1:5 Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also.

2 Timothy 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 12:7-10 Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct? . . .

Context
Children and Parents
3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth. 4And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord. 5Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:19
For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Deuteronomy 4:9
Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 6:7
And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.

Psalm 78:4
They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.

Proverbs 4:4
Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 22:6
It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:3
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.

Colossians 3:21
Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

2 Timothy 3:15
And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 6:3
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