21 Bible Verses about Complaints

Do all things without grumbling or arguing,

Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

And the Pharisees and their scribes complained against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."

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

But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with impure hands?"

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

And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming!"

And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."

The Jews then began to murmur about him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven." They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" Jesus answered them, "Do not murmur among yourselves.

Now in those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the native Hebrews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you; but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things."

But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me."

And when they saw it they all murmured, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for their own advantage.