17 Bible Verses about Provoking

And her adversary also provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because the LORD had made her barren.

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

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

And as he did so 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 saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

And, ye 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 oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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

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

Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a harlot: lest the land should fall to lewdness, 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 forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath incited very many.

When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy lewd deeds, to provoke me to anger.