17 Bible Verses about Provoking

And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.

But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.