Quotes about Provocation

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it, of a great mind.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?

Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.

Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.

At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.