13 Bible Verses about Neglecting God's Things

Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

For God speaketh once, Yea twice, though man regardeth it not.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:

-ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.