8 Bible Verses about Provoking

Or 'are we to rouse the jealousy of the Lord'? Are we stronger than he?

But again I ask 'Did not the people of Israel understand? First there is Moses, who says--'I, the Lord, will stir you to rivalry with a nation which is no nation; Against an undiscerning nation I will arouse your anger.'

And fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up with Christian discipline and instruction.

Fathers, never irritate your children, lest they should become disheartened.

Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions.

Do not let us grow vain, and provoke or envy one another.

I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.