Provoke not to anger (μη παροργιζετε). Rare compound, both N.T. examples are quotations from the LXX. The active, as here, has a c…

And you fathers. A command addressed particularly to fathers because they are at the head of the family, and its government is es…

Provoke not your children to wrath.—The word is the same as in Ephesians 4:26. It denotes the exasperation produced by ar…

For the duties are like birds with two wings, or like a pair of scales, balance for each side. There is the child's duty, but there is the parent's…

The child-parent relationship is not one-sided. A standard feature of Paul’s treatment of these domestic categories is that the stronger have oblig…

And, you fathers. Parents, on the other hand, are exhorted not to irritate their children by unreasonable severity. This would excite hatr…

And you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath
Neither by words; by unjust and, unreasonable commands; by contu…

The great duty of children is to obey their parents. This obedience includes inward reverence as well as outward actions, and in every age, prosper…