17 Bible Verses about Provoking

And her adversary also provoked her severely to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

Do they provoke me to anger? says the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces?

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot; lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

For I know the eagerness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has provoked very many.

When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:

You have also played the harlot with the Egyptians your neighbors, strong in lust; and have increased your harlotries, to provoke me to anger.