17 Bible Verses about Provoking

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

But are they really provoking Me?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace?”

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Whenever she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat.

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said:

I will make you jealous
of those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation
that lacks understanding.

Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become discouraged.

They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.

How often they rebelled against Him
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.

And let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works,

A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,
but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.

“Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

For I know your eagerness, and I brag about you to the Macedonians: “Achaia has been prepared since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

“When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, provoking Him to anger,

You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to provoke Me to anger.