17 Bible Verses about Provoking

And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

Is it I whom they provoke? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the LORD, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

"Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.

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

for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.

"When you father children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.