8 Bible Verses about Provoking

What! do we intend to rouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?

Then, I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Why, first of all Moses declares, I will make you jealous of a nation that is no nation, I will provoke you to anger over a nation devoid of understanding.

As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.

Fathers, avoid irritating your children, in case they get dispirited.

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.