14 Bible Verses about Complacency
Most Relevant Verses
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years: take thine ease; eat, drink, and be merry.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and long suffering inherited the promises.
for if they escaped not who refused him that delivered the oracle on earth, much more shall not we, who turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
It is commonly reported, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as is not even named among the heathens, that one should have his father's wife. And are ye puffed up? Have ye not rather mourned, that he who hath done this deed, might be taken from among you?
But every one that heareth these my sayings, and doth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
But they slighting it, went one to his farm, another to his merchandise.
Peter answering said to him, Tho' all should be offended at thee, I will never be offended.
And that servant who knew his Lord's will, and prepared not, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For to whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required; and to whom they have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a field, I must needs go and see it: I pray thee, have me excused.
Now ye are full: now ye are rich: ye have reigned as kings without us. And I would ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: O that thou wert cold or hot! So because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot; I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayst, I am rich, and have inriched myself, and have need of nothing, and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith: prove yourselves. Do ye not know yourselves? That Jesus Christ is in you? unless ye are reprobates.
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that had heard him?
