8 Bible Verses about Provoking

Or, are we trying to incite the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

But again I ask, Israel did not understand, did they? For in the first place Moses says: "I will make you jealous of a nation that is no nation; I will provoke you to anger at a senseless nation."

You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.

Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.

Let us continue so to consider one another as to stimulate one another to love and good deeds.

Let us stop being ambitious for honors, so challenging one another, envying one another.

for I know your readiness to help in it. I am boasting of you about it to the Macedonians, reminding them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated the most of them.