23 Bible Verses about Indifference

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Isaiah 42:20

Seeing many things, and thou wilt not watch; opening the ears, and he will not bear.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will not hear:

Zephaniah 1:6

And those departing from after Jehovah, and who sought not Jehovah, and asked not for him.

Matthew 13:15

For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.

Acts 28:27

For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them.

Revelation 3:15-22

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling. For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month. For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;read more.
I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see. I, if as many as I love, I rebuke and correct: be emulous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand before the door, and knock: and if any hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. He conquering, will I give to him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne. He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Jeremiah 37:2

And he heard not, he and his servents, and the people of the land, to the words of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.

Psalm 81:11

And my people heard not to my voice; and Israel was not inclined to me.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak and testify, and they will hear? behold, their ear being uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah was to them for a reproach; they will not delight in it

Jeremiah 7:13

And now, because ye did all these works, says Jehovah, and I will speak to you, rising early and speaking, and ye heard not; and I will call you and ye answered not;

Jeremiah 25:3-7

From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, and even to this day, this the three and twentieth year, the word of Jehovah was to me, and I will speak to you, rising early and speaking, and ye heard not And Jehovah sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending; and ye heard not, and ye inclined not your ear to hear. Saying, Turn back now each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell upon the land which Jehovah gave to you and to your fathers to from forever and even to forever.read more.
And ye shall not go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them, and ye shall not irritate me in the work of your hands; and I will not do evil to you. And ye heard not to me, says Jehovah; so as to irritate me in the works of your hands for evil to you.

Jeremiah 35:15

And I shall send to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Turn ye back now each from his evil way, and make good your doings, and ye shall not go after other gods to serve them, and turn ye back to the land which I gave to you and to your fathers: and ye inclined not your ear and ye heard not to me.

Ezekiel 3:7

And the house of Israel will not hear to thee; for they are not willing to hear to me: for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead, and they are hard of heart.

Zechariah 1:4

Ye shall not be as your fathers which the former prophets called to them, saying, Thus, said Jehovah of armies: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings: and they heard not, and they attended not to me, says Jehovah.

Zechariah 7:11-13

And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing. And their heart they set a diamond from hearing the instruction and the words which Jehovah of armies sent by his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: and there will be great wrath from Jehovah of armies. And it will be as he called and they heard not; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of armies:

Jeremiah 5:3

O Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon faithfulness? thou didst smite them, and they were not pained; thou didst consume them, they refused to take instruction: they made their faces firm above the rock; they refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying.

Jeremiah 7:27-28

And speak thou to them all these words, and they will not hear to thee: and call to them, and they will not answer. And say to them, This a nation that heard not to the voice of Jehovah its God, and they received not instruction: faithfulness perished, and was eat off from their mouth.

Jeremiah 17:23

And they heard not, and they inclined not their ear, and they will harden their neck not to hear, and not to receive instruction.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, thou art dwelling in the midst of a house of contradiction, which to them eyes to see, and they saw not: ears to them to hear, and they heard not: for they are a house of contradiction.

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Indifference » In spirit

Isaiah 47:8

And now hear this, thou living delicately, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me; I shall not sit a widow, and I shall not know bereavement

Matthew 22:5

And they, not having heeded, departed, one truly to his own field, and one to his traffic:

Amos 6:1

Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came.

Indifference » In service

Judges 5:23

Curse ye Meroz, said the messenger of Jehovah: Cursing, curse ye her inhabitants; For they came not to the help of Jehovah To the help of Jehovah against the mighty ones.

Nehemiah 3:5

And upon their hand held fast the Tekoites; and their nobles brought not their neck into the work of their Lord.

Joshua 18:3

And Joshua will say to the sons of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers gave to you?

Indifference » The reward for being lukewarm

Revelation 3:14-16

And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling. For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month.

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