Bible Verses about βprovocationβ
The Bible contains 31 verses about provocation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.β
βThere hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].β
βΒΆ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.β
βTherefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.β
βAnd not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;β
βBut God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.β
βAnd patience, experience; and experience, hope:β
βBe not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.β
βAnd hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.β
βNot rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.β
βBut he answered and said, βΉIt is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.βΊβ
βWherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:β
βΒΆ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:β
βΒΆ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.β
β(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.β
βNevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.β
βBy whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.β
βΒΆ For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.β
βMuch more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.β
βFor as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.β
βFor if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.β
βBut not as the offence, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.β
βAnd not as [it was] by one that sinned, [so is] the gift: for the judgment [was] by one to condemnation, but the free gift [is] of many offences unto justification.β
βFor if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)β
βTherefore as by the offence of one [judgment came] upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one [the free gift came] upon all men unto justification of life.β
βFor scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.β
βΒΆ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.β
βMoreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:β
βThat as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.β
βAnd not only [so], but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.β
βWhile it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.β
