21 Bible Verses about Complaints

Do all things without murmurings and disputings;

Not that I am speaking in respect of want; for I learned in whatsoever circumstances I am, to be content.

In everything give thanks; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

And the Pharisees, seeing it, said to His disciples, Why is your Teacher eating with the tax-collectors and sinners?"

And the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that He was eating with the sinners and tax-collectors, said to His disciples, "Why doth He eat with the tax-collectors and sinners?"

And the Pharisees and their scribes were murmuring against the disciples, saying, "Why are ye eating and drinking with the tax-collectors and sinners?"

But the Pharisees, seeing it, said to Him, "Behold, Thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful to do on a sabbath."

And the Pharisees said to them, "Behold, why are they doing on the sabbath that which is not lawful?"

But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are ye doing that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath?"

"Why do Thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands, when they eat bread!"

And the Pharisees and the scribes ask Him, "Why do not Thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?"

"Why doth this Man speak thus? He blasphemeth! Who can forgive sins but One, God?"

And, behold, some of the scribes said among themselves, "This Man is blaspheming! "

And both the scribes and the Pharisees were murmuring, saying, "This Man receiveth sinners and eateth with them!"

The Jews, therefore, were murmuring concerning Him, because He said, "I am the Bread that came down out of Heaven." And they said, "Is not this Jesus, the Son of Joseph, Whose father and mother we know? How doth He now say, 'I have come down out of Heaven'? Jesus answered, and said to them, "Murmur not among yourselves.

Now in these days, when the disciples were being multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration.

And, when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If, indeed, it were some wrong or wicked villainy, O Jews, with reason had I borne with you; but, if they are questions about a word, and names, and your own law, ye yourselves shall see to it. I am not disposed to be a judge of such matters."

But Martha was being distracted about much serving; and, coming up suddenly, she said, "Lord, carest Thou not that my sister left me to serve alone? Speak to her, therefore, that she assist me!"

And, seeing it, they were all murmuring, saying, "He went in to be guest with a sinful man!"

These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.