17 Bible Verses about Provoking

And her rival used even to cause her great vexation, for the sake of provoking her, - because Yahweh had restrained her from having children.

Is it me, they are provoking? Enquireth Yahweh, - Is it not themselves, - unto the shame of their own faces?

Or are we to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we mightier than he?

And, thus, used she to do, year by year, whenever she went up to the house of Yahweh, thus, used she to vex her, - and she wept, and would not eat.

But I say: Hath, Israel, not come to know? First, Moses, saith - I, will provoke you to jealousy on account of a no-nation, on account of an undiscerning nation, will I make you very angry.

And ye fathers, be not provoking your children to anger, but be nourishing them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Ye fathers! be not irritating your children, lest they be disheartened;

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

How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:

And let us attentively consider one another, to provoke unto love and noble works, -

Heavy is a stone, and weighty is sand, - but, the vexation of a fool, is heavier than both.

Do not profane thy daughter by causing her to be unchaste, - lest the land fall to unchastity, and so the land be filled with wickedness.

Let us not become vain-glorious, - one another, challenging, one another, envying.

For I know your forwardness of mind - of which, in your behalf, I am boasting unto Macedonians, that, Achaia, hath been prepared for a year past, - and, your zeal, hath stirred up the greater number of them.

When thou shalt beget sons, and sons' sons, and become careless in the land and break faith and make an image the form of any thing, and shalt do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh thy God provoking him to anger,

Then didst thou extend thine unchaste acts unto the sons of Egypt - thy neighbour great of flesh,- And caused thine unchaste ways to abound provoking me to anger.