21 Bible Verses about Complaints

Do everything without grumbling and disputes,

Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel. Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.

When the Pharisees saw it, they kept saying to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and sinners?"

But when some scribes of the Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax-gatherers, they said to his disciples, "Is he eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

And the Pharisees and their scribes began complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why are you eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

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

"Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"

And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

So the Pharisees and Scribes asked him. "Why do your disciples not follow the traditions of the elders? Why do they eat with 'common' unwashed hands?"

"Why does this man speak like this? He blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins but One, God himself?"

And behold! certain scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming."

And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"

Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking. "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?" "Do not find fault with me among yourselves,"

Now in these days while the number of the disciples was multiplying, the Grecian Jews began to murmur against the Hebrews, because their widows were habitually overlooked in the distribution of alms.

Paul was about to open his mouth, when Gallio said to the Jews. "If it had been some misdemeanor or wicked villainy, it would have been within reason for me to listen to you Jews; but as these are merely questions about words and names and your own law, you yourselves must see to it. I am not willing to be a judge of these matters."

But Martha meanwhile was growing distracted about much serving. She came up to him and said: "Lord do you not care that my sister has left me alone to do the serving? Come tell her to take hold of her end of the work along with me."

When they all saw it, they began to complain, saying "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get.