14 Bible Verses about Complacency

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

in order that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsufferings do inherit the promises.

See that you do not reject the one speaking: for if they escape not having rejected the one delivering them the divine oracles on earth, how much more shall we not escape, who turn away from the one speaking from the heavens:

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father. And have you been inflated, and have not rather mourned, that the one having done this work may be taken from your midst?

And every one hearing these words of mine, and doing them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

And they being careless, went away, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise:

But Peter responding said to Him, If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended.

But that servant knowing the will of his lord, and not preparing or doing according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But the one not knowing, and doing things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. But to every one to whom much is given, much will be required of him: and to whom they commit much, of him they will ask the more.

And they all of one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a farm, and I have need having gone to see it: I pray thee have me excused.

Already are ye filled, already have ye become rich; you did reign without us: and I would indeed that you did reign, in order that we also might reign along with you.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were either cold or hot. Thus because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth. Because you are saying, That I am rich, and have increased in riches, and have need as to nothing, and do you not know that you are miserable, and pitiful, and poor, and blind, and naked?

Prove your own selves, if you are in the faith; examine yourselves; whether do you not know yourselves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless indeed you are reprobates.

So let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he may fall.

how shall we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? which having received the beginning to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by those who heard it;