Provoke

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods, that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.’”

When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.

For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”

I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →

in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

and don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →