Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

你们作父亲的，不要惹儿女的气，恐怕他们失了志气。

你们作父亲的，不要惹儿女生气，恐怕他们会灰心。

你们作父亲的，不要惹儿女生气，恐怕他们会灰心。

你们做父亲的，不要激怒儿女，免得他们灰心丧志。

你们作父亲的，不要激怒儿女，免得他们灰心丧志。

你们做父亲的，不要惹自己儿女生气，免得他们灰心丧志；

你們作父親的，不要惹兒女的氣，恐怕他們失了志氣。

你們作父親的，不要惹兒女生氣，恐怕他們會灰心。

你們作父親的，不要惹兒女生氣，恐怕他們會灰心。

你們作父親的，不要激怒兒女，免得他們灰心喪志。

你們作父親的，不要激怒兒女，免得他們灰心喪志。

做父親的，別激你們兒女的氣了，免得他們喪志灰心。

你們做父親的，不要惹自己兒女生氣，免得他們灰心喪志；

父勿激子、恐其氣餒、

父勿使子怨怒、恐其氣餒、

父、爾勿激子之怒、恐其失志、

為父者不可苛責其子女、使之灰心。

Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

Fathers, don’t make your children bitter. If you do, they will lose hope.

Fathers, do not aggravate your children, or they will become discouraged.

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

Fathers, do not antagonize your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children[ to anger], lest they be discouraged.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,he taught me and said to me,“ Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.

for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

For you know how, like a father with his children,

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?“ My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.