13 Bible Verses about Neglecting God's Things

You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.

For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.

What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.

You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;

And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.

Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.