21 Bible Verses about Complaints

In all that you do, avoid grumbling and disputing,

Not that I complain of want, for I have learned how to be content wherever I am.

thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

And you must not murmur, as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by the destroying angel. It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.

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

So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath."

The Pharisees said to him, "Look at what they are doing on the sabbath! That is not allowed."

Some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not allowed on the sabbath?"

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

Some scribes said to themselves, "The man is talking blasphemy!"

but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"

Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven." They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?" Jesus replied to them, "Stop murmuring to yourselves.

During these days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists began to complain against the Hebrews, on the ground that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

Paul was just on the point of opening his lips to reply, when Gallio said to the Jews, "If it had been a misdemeanour or wicked crime, there would be some reason in me listening to you,O Jews. But as these are merely questions of words and persons and your own Law, you can attend to them for yourselves. I decline to adjudicate upon matters like that."

Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand."

But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.

For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life ??they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.