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Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by [them that are] no people, [and] by a foolish nation I will anger you.
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
¶ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them.
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
¶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined [him] before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
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