Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will 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, 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, 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 exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching.For I too was a son to my father, still tender, and cherished by my mother.Then he taught me, and he said to me,“ Take hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands, and you will live.

because the Lord disciplines those he loves, 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;

For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,

And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,“ My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?If you are not disciplined— and everyone undergoes discipline— then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.