17 Bible Verses about Provoking

The other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy. This is because Jehovah had not given her children.

Do they spite me? Asks Jehovah. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

Do we provoke Jehovah to rivalry (indignation) (anger)? Are we stronger than he?

Year after year when Peninnah went to the Temple of Jehovah, she kept on provoking Hannah. It bothered Hannah so much she wept and did not eat.

I say Israel did not know. First Moses said: I will provoke you people to rivalry through that which is not a nation, and I will anger you with a foolish nation. (Deuteronomy 32:21)

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

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

They did not keep the covenant of God. They refused to walk in his law.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness! How often they caused him grief in the desert!

Let us consider one another to encourage love and good works:

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

Do not dishonor your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the country will turn to prostitution and be filled with people who are perverted.

Let us not become egotistical, stirring up competition with one another, envying one another.

I know you are ready and I boast about to the Macedonians. That Achaia has been prepared since last year. Your zeal stirred up many of them.

When you have children, and grandchildren, and you have remained in the land a long time do not corrupt yourselves. If you make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and do evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, you will provoke him to anger:

You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.