Bible Verses about โprovocationโ
The Bible contains 31 verses about provocation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ
โNo temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.โ
โBeloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.โ
โTo him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.โ
โNot only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;โ
โBut God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.โ
โand perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:โ
โDon't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.โ
โand hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.โ
โnot rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.โ
โBut he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"โ
โTherefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.โ
โBeing therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;โ
โEveryone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.โ
โFor until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.โ
โNevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.โ
โthrough whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.โ
โFor while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.โ
โMuch more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.โ
โFor as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.โ
โFor if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.โ
โBut the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.โ
โThe gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.โ
โFor if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.โ
โSo then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.โ
โFor one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.โ
โA fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.โ
โThe law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;โ
โthat as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.โ
โNot only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.โ
โwhile it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."โ
