17 Bible Verses about Provoking

Her rival, however, would provoke her bitterly to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.

Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

It happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.

But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says,
“I will make you jealous by that which is not a nation,
By a nation without understanding will I anger you.”

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk in His law;

How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!

and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.

Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, namely, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

“When you become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,

You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.