Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Colossians 3:21
(13) Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.
(13) Of parents, that they are gentle towards their children.
(13) Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.
(13) Of parents, that they are gentle towards their children.
COLOSSIANS 3:21 evreqi,zete {B} In place of evreqi,zete, supported by î46vid a B Y 1739* _al_, a wide spectrum of other witnesses has adopted parorgi,zete from the pa...
Verse 21. _FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT_] Ephesians 6:4, Ephesians 6:4....
FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT ... - Notes, Ephesians 6:4. LEST THEY BE DISCOURAGED - Lest, by your continually finding fault with them, they should lose all courage, and despair of ever pleasing you. There is...
III. THE PRACTICAL RESULTS: LIVING AS RISEN WITH CHRIST (3-4) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The life hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1)_ 2. The contrast: The old man and the new man (Colossians 3:5) 3. Mani...
COLOSSIANS 3:18 TO COLOSSIANS 4:1. CERTAIN DUTIES INTERPRETED IN RELATION TO CHRIST. _ Cf._ Ephesians 5:22 *. Col. omits the simile of Christ and the Church. A reason is given why fathers should not h...
THE RISEN LIFE (Colossians 3:1-4)...
Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the...
PROVOKE. See 2 Corinthians 9:2. LEST. in order that (Greek. _hina)..._ not (App-105). BE DISCOURAGED. have their spirit broken. Greek. _athumeo._ Only here....
_Fathers_ We may (as in Ephesians 6:4, where see note) equally well render PARENTS. Cp. Hebrews 11:23, in the Greek. Still, the father is the natural _representative_of the dual parental authority. _p...
5–4:1. _Practical duties_ Colossians 3:5-17, in the individual life; Colossians 3:18_ to_ Colossians 4:1, in the social relations of a household....
18–4:1. _The social relations of a household_ Colossians 3:18-19. Wives and Husbands. Colossians 3:20-21. Children and Fathers. Colossians 3:22_ to_...
ἘΡΕΘΊΖΕΤΕ BDbcK, etc. παροργίζετε is read by אACD*GL from Ephesians 6:4. (On the Syriac verss. here see Lightfoot, add. note.) 21. ΟἹ ΠΑΤΈΡΕΣ. The change from γονεῖς (Colossians 3:20) seems to forbid...
ΈΡΕΘΊΖΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΈΡΕΘΊΖΩ (G2042) возбуждать, провоцировать, раздражать (Abbott), ΆΘΥΜΏΣΙΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΆΘΥΜΈΩ (G120) быть робким, становиться бездушным, бессердечным: "выпо...
20. CHILDREN, OBEY YOUR PARENTS IN ALL THINGS, FOR THIS IS WELL-PLEASING IN THE LORD. 21. FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN, THAT THEY BE NOT DISCOURAGED. _Translation and Paraphrase_ 20. (You) chi...
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 'Irritate not' [ erethizete (G2042)]. So B. But 'Aleph...
_CORRECTION-DEPORTMENT_ 17 We should always distinguish between our place "in _ Christ_ " and "in the Lord". "In _ Christ_ " physical distinctions vanish, even the distinction between the sexes is go...
THE CHRISTIAN'S RISEN LIFE AND THE DUTIES IT ENTAILS 1-4. Resurrection with Christ and the heavenly life. PARAPHRASE] '(1) Seeing then that at your conversion you shared not Christ's death only, but...
CHRIST HAS EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED THE COLOSSIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 3 HOW TO LIVE YOUR NEW LIFE WITH CHRIST V1 You hav...
PROVOKE NOT... TO ANGER. — This, in the text followed by our version, is borrowed from Ephesians 6:4. The true reading is _provoke to emulation,_ as in 2 Corinthians 9:2. What is forbidden is a consta...
[6. Special Exhortation as to the relations of life. (1) THE DUTY OF WIVES AND HUSBANDS (Colossians 3:18). (2) THE DUTY OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS (Colossians 3:20). (3) THE DUTY OF SLAVES AND MAST...
CHAPTER 3 THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY Colossians 3:18; Colossians 4:1 (R.V.) This chapter deals with the Christian family, as made up of husband and wife, children, and servants. In the family, Christianit...
to Colossians 4:1. ENFORCEMENT OF THE RECIPROCAL DUTIES OF WIVES AND HUSBANDS, CHILDREN AND PARENTS, SLAVES AND MASTERS, WITH FREQUENT REFERENCE TO THESE DUTIES AS INVOLVED IN THEIR DUTY TO CHRIST. In...
ἐρεθίζετε : _i.e._, irritate by exacting commands and perpetual faultfinding and interference for interference, sake. The consequence of such foolish exercise of authority is that the child becomes di...
HOME AND BUSINESS RELATIONS Colossians 3:18; Colossians 4:1 From these high flights into the eternal and divine, Paul turns to the daily duties of the home, and demands that in the simplest domestic...
The believer is to "seek the things... above." The word "seek" marks aspiration, desire, and passion. The things above are those of the empire of Christ. In order to seek these things the mind must be...
The Christian's Home It appears to this writer that Paul's words on the family are a special application of doing all in the Lord's name. In even the smallest of tasks, when two people work together s...
(18) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. (19) Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. (20) Children, obey your parents in all things: for this...
The most cursory reader discerns at once that the epistle to the Colossians is the counterpart of that to the Ephesians. They are in nowise the same, but may be viewed each as a supplement to the othe...
Now begins the direct exhortations founded on the truth that has been developed, and adapted to the state in which the Colossians were; that is, viewed as risen with Christ, but not sitting in heavenl...
FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN TO ANGER,.... Ephesians 6:4. LEST THEY BE DISCOURAGED; or disheartened and dispirited; their spirits be broke through grief and trouble, and they become indolent,...
Fathers, provoke not your children _to anger_, lest they be discouraged. Ver. 21. _Provoke not your children_] _See Trapp on "_ Eph 6:4 _"_ Lest they be discouraged] αθυμωσιν, dispirited, and throug...
_Wives, submit yourselves_ Or be subject; _to your own husbands_ Whether they be Christians or heathen. See on Ephesians 5:22. _As it is fit_ Both in regard of God's command, and the evil that would a...
On these verses see the notes on the very similar passage, Ephesians 5:19-33; Ephesians 6:1-9....
PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN; by unkindly and improperly finding fault with them, being difficult to please, or failing to commend and encourage them when they do well. LEST THEY BE DISCOURAGED; despair...
FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN TO ANGER, LEST THEY BE DISCOURAGED....
The conduct of Christians in various stations in life:...
CHANGING THE OLD FOR THE NEW (vs.1-11) We have seen some practical exhortations mingled with the doctrine of this epistle. Now this chapter begins what is mainly practical instruction based on the t...
Practical Injunctions - 3:18 - 4:1 18WIVES, SUBMIT TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS, AS IS FITTING IN THE LORD. As he does in several letters, Paul spends some time in the practical area and addresses several g...
FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN, THAT THEY BE NOT DISCOURAGED. 'FATHERS' -The same type of warning would apply to mothers (for they can exasperate their children also). But fathers are addressed:...
18-25 The epistles most taken up in displaying the glory of the Divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular in pressing the duties of the Christian life. We must never separa...
FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN TO ANGER: and to moderate the parental authority, that they may exercise it Christianly, he allows not parents to do that which is in a direct tendency to irritate o...
Colossians 3:21 Fathers G3962 not G3361 provoke G2042 (G5720) your G5216 children G5043 lest G3363 discouraged G120
‘Fathers (or ‘parents'), do not provoke (or ‘irritate') your children, so that they are not discouraged.' ‘Fathers'. The word means ‘parents' in Hebrews 11:23, so could mean that here. ‘Do not provoke...
Colossians 3:21. FATHERS; as representing the ultimate household authority, and hence as especially needing this caution. PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN; or, ‘do not irritate your children.' ‘To anger' i...
3. _Special Precepts as to Household Relations._ This section agrees, not only in outline, but in detail, with the corresponding passage in Ephesians. The arrangement is identical, the precepts and mo...
III. HORTATORY PART: LIVE AS THOSE SHOULD LIVE WHO WERE RAISED WITH CHRIST THE HEAD. (1.) Fellowship with the Exalted Christ the motive for the new life; Colossians 3:1-4. (Transitive paragraph.) (2....
PROVOKE NOT (μη ερεθιζετε). Present imperative of old verb from ερεθω, to excite. Only twice in N.T., here in bad sense, in good sense in 2 Corinthians 9:2 (to stimulate). Here it means to nag and...
Colossians 3:21 The Christian Training of Children. I. Man has enemies enough within; corruption of many kinds is deeply rooted in the human heart, and, sooner or later, springs up and manifests itse...
Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth._ Th...
Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God._ Oh! how often we need to be called to this, for the flesh is grove...
CONTENTS: Believer's union with Christ here and hereafter, and the fruit of such union. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The true believer is united with Christ in a union which can never b...
Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ,_ above the darkness and torpor of the present world, as in Colossians 2:20, live in conformity to your hope, by seeking _those things that are above._...
PARENTS. It is easy to be harsh and punish children more severely than ought to be done. This may make them bitter and cause them to hate....
_Children, obey your parents in all things._ THE MUTUAL OFFICES OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN Among all those mutual offices by which society is preserved those incumbent on parents and children are the mo...
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:21 DO NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN. A father’s negative emotions and actions can cause a child to be discouraged (see Ephesians 6:4).
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 3:20. FOR THIS IS WELL-PLEASING.— Ephesians 6:1: “This is right.” What in Ephesians is regarded as an equitable due from child to parent is here looked at i...
EXPOSITION COLOSSIANS 3:1 SECTION VII. THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE. The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the controversial to the more...
So then, If then you are risen with Christ [If you are risen with Christ... going back to buried with Christ in baptism, now risen with Him], seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth a...
1 Thessalonians 2:11; Ephesians 6:4; Hebrews 12:5; Proverbs 3:12;...
Provoke to anger [ε ρ ε θ ι ζ ε τ ε]. Only here and 2 Corinthians 9:2, where it is used of stirring up to good works. To anger is added by A. V. Be discouraged (ajqumwsin). Only here in the New Testam...
PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN LIVING Colossians 3:15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts. 2. The call of God to the Church, His Body. 3. Be ye thankful. 4. Let the Word of God d...
Lest they be discouraged — Which may occasion their turning either desperate or stupid....
Here the parents duty, that is the duty of both parents, is laid down, PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN TO WRATH; that is, abuse not your power and authority over them, by being too severe unto them; imbitte...