21 Bible Verses about Complaints

In all that you do, avoid murmuring and dissension,

Do not think that I am saying this under the pressure of want. For I, however I am placed, have learned to be independent of circumstances.

Under all circumstances give thanks to God. For this is his will for you as made known in Christ Jesus.

And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so 'were destroyed by the Angel of Death.' These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples: "Why does your Teacher eat in the company of tax-gatherers and outcasts?"

When the Teachers of the Law belonging to the party of the Pharisees saw that he was eating in the company of such people, they said to his disciples: "He is eating in the company of tax- gatherers and outcasts!"

The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus."

But, when the Pharisees saw this, they said: "Look! your disciples are doing what it is not allowable to do on a Sabbath!"

"Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?"

"Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?" asked some of the Pharisees.

"How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."

So the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question--"How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?"

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?"

Then some of the teachers of the Law said to themselves: "This man is blaspheming!"

But the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law found fault. "This man always welcomes outcasts, and takes meals with them!" they complained.

Upon this the Jews began murmuring against Jesus for saying-- 'I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.' "Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?" "Do not murmur among yourselves," said Jesus in reply.

About this time, when the number of the disciples was constantly increasing, complaints were made by the Jews of foreign birth against the native Jews, that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

Just as Paul was on the point of speaking, Gallio said to the Jews: "Jews, if this were a case of misdemeanor or some serious crime, there would be some reason for my listening patiently to you; But, since it is a dispute about words, and names, and your own Law, you must see to it yourselves. I do not choose to be a judge in such matters."

But Martha was distracted by the many preparations that she was making. So she went up to Jesus and said: "Master, do you approve of my sister's leaving me to make preparations alone? Tell her to help me."

On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."

These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.