17 Bible Verses about Provoking

And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;

How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.

Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger;

Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.