17 Bible Verses about Provoking

(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)

[Are] they provoking me to anger? " {declares} Yahweh, "[Is it] not themselves [they hurt], for the sake of the shame of their faces?"

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

And so he used to do year after year; {whenever} she went up to the house of Yahweh, she would provoke her so that she would weep and would not eat.

But I say, Israel did not know, did they? First, Moses says, "I will provoke you [to jealousy] by [those who are] not a nation; by a senseless nation I will provoke you [to anger]."

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in [the] wasteland!

And let us think about {how to stir one another up to love} and good works,

Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

" 'You shall not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, {lest the land be prostituted and the land fill up with depravity}.

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

because I know your readiness [to help], [concerning] which I keep on boasting to the Macedonians about you, that Achaia has been ready [to help] since last year, and your zeal has stirred up the majority [of them].

"When you have had children and {grandchildren} and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image [of] the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, [thus] provoking him to anger,

And you prostituted with the {Egyptians}, your neighbors {who were sexually aroused}, and you increased your fornication to provoke me.