Summary: This is more encouragement for Step-parents. I want to encourage you to "Be Not Easily Provoked" Being a Step-Parent is a joy that is filled with many challenges. You are tasked by God with suffering long as you walk in love. This encouragement comes with support from three scriptures. I Corinthians 13: 4 -8a; Ecclesiastes 7: 9; and Ephesians 6: 1 - 4.