11 Bible Verses about Lukewarmness
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So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.
How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;
O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.
And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.
From Thematic Bible
Lukewarmness » Figurative
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
Lukewarmness » Instances of » The jews under nehemiah
Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.
Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.
Lukewarmness » Instances of » A congregation at » Pergamos
But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh. And you have those who keep the teaching of the Nicolaitans. See, then, that you have a change of heart; or I will come to you quickly, and will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
Lukewarmness » Instances of » A congregation at » Thyatira
But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods. And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways. See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works. read more.
And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works. But to you I say, to the rest in Thyatira, even to those who have not this teaching, and have no knowledge of the secrets of Satan, as they say; I put on you no other weight.
Lukewarmness » Instances of » A congregation at » Laodicea
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order: I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm. So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.
Lukewarmness » Instances of » A congregation at » Sardis
And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead. Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure. Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.
Lukewarmness » Instances of » The reubenites, when deborah called on them to assist sisera
Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?