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Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.
Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
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