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

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, 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, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Listen, my sons, to a father’s discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,for I am giving you good instruction. Don’t abandon my teaching.When I was a son with my father, tender and precious to my mother,he taught me and said:“ Your heart must hold on to my words. Keep my commands and live.

for the Lord disciplines the one He loves, just as a father, the son he delights in.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

As you know, like a father with his own children,

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly or faint when you are reproved by Him,for the Lord disciplines the one He loves and punishes every son He receives.Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?But if you are without discipline— which all receive— then you are illegitimate children and not sons.Furthermore, we had natural fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness.No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it.