30 Bible Verses About Complaining

“Do everything without grumbling or arguing,”

“And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.”

“Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!”

“Moses also said, ‘You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.’”

“‘How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.’”

“Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.”

“These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.”

“Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.”

“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.”

“They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the Lord.”

“In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.”

“And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.”

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,”

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.”

“They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the Lord. So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the wilderness, make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.”

“But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’”

“They wander about for food and howl if not satisfied.”

“At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’”

“Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.’ We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.”

“Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.”

“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.”

“When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.”

“The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.”

“A person’s own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the Lord.”

“Sin is not ended by multiplying words, but the prudent hold their tongues.”

“I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”

“Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the Lord and the fire died down.”

“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.”

“Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen.”

“One of you will say to me: ‘Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?’ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? ‘Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’’ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?”