NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Colossians 3:21

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

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Colossians 3:18–24

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Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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

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Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

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knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

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