This is the question

This is the question:

What does provoke at 1 Corinthians 13:5 mean to you?

These are some to choose from:

Not easily provoked.  King James
Not irritable.  New Living
Not easily angered. New International Version
Never...or ever gets annoyed.  International Standard Version
is not provoked to anger. Douay-Rheims Bible
nor blaze out in passionate anger. Weymouth New Testament

This is the word translated as such (above) paroxynetai trnasliterated from the Greek παροξύνεται

I think not easily angered and does not blaze out in passionate anger are right IF it is talking about the person's OWN feelings.

I am sure real love does not exist to provoke another.  That is what I think it means for real.  My husband says maybe it means both.  It might.

What do you think it means?  Is it talking about self control or is it talking about good manners?  Or both?  I do not know if one word can mean two different things that are sort of opposite.

Do you understand the question?

It is possible for me to be angered by another AND it is possible for me to cause anger in another.

I think it means love does not cause anger in another (person).  You know, on purpose or for the sake of conflict.

Sometimes experience shows that what you are doing is causing anger.  Love would stop  what love is doing if it is causing anger , according to 1 Corinthians 13:5, if that is what it means.  I think it is what it means.

What do you think it means?

Will you stay with tradition, or your custom, or will you consider it?

Do not leave off gathering together as some have the custom.....

OK.  Nobody wants to gather with anyone who makes her angry.  And getting angry or irritable has nothing to do with a lack of love.  But that is what it says.