15 Bible Verses about Resentment, Against People
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And the twelve, on hearing this, were filled with indignation against the two brethren.
NOW in those days, when the disciples were multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian proselytes against the Hebrews, because their widows were overlooked in the daily distribution.
But when the first came, they expected that they should receive more; and they also received every man a denarius. But when they received it, they murmured against the master of the family:
Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice:
have thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and prepare before your promised bounty, that it may be ready as a matter of bounty, and not as [extorted] of covetousness.
And a servant of the Lord ought not to quarrel; but to be gentle to all men, apt to teach, forbearing,
carefully observing lest any of you fail of attaining the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it many be defiled;
But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical.
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest be ye condemned: lo! the judge standeth at the gates.
Not that I mention this with a view to my indigence: for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am, to be content.
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For that we brought nothing into the world is evident, neither can we carry any thing out of it. Having then food and raiment, let us be therewith content.read more.
For they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful passions, which sink men in the abyss of destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting, have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Let the tenor of your life be divested of the love of money; content with your present possessions: for he hath said, "I will in no wise leave thee, neither will I in any case forsake thee."
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