“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
Paul's letter to Colossae was written around 60 AD during his Roman imprisonment. His instruction to fathers is the shortest and perhaps most specific in the New Testament: the danger is not harshness in general, but the specific spiritual consequence — discouragement.
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