Verse 16

These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.
  • 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
  • Phil 2:14 : 14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
  • Num 16:11 : 11 Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the LORD! And Aaron– what is he that you murmur against him?”
  • Jude 1:18 : 18 For they said to you,“In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”
  • Deut 1:27 : 27 You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!
  • Job 17:4-5 : 4 Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them. 5 If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.
  • Job 32:21 : 21 I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I confer a title on any man.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 He despises a reprobate, but honors the LORD’s loyal followers. He makes firm commitments and does not renege on his promise.
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They are calloused; they speak arrogantly.
  • Ps 73:9-9 : 9 They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth. 10 Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea. 11 They say,“How does God know what we do? Is the Most High aware of what goes on?”
  • Ps 106:25 : 25 They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD.
  • Prov 28:21 : 21 To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.
  • Isa 29:24 : 24 Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.
  • Luke 5:30 : 30 But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying,“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
  • Luke 15:2 : 2 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining,“This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 And when the people saw it, they all complained,“He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
  • John 6:41 : 41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said,“I am the bread that came down from heaven,”
  • John 6:61 : 61 When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them,“Does this cause you to be offended?
  • 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
  • Jas 2:1-9 : 1 Prejudice and the Law of Love My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. 2 For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes, 3 do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say,“You sit here in a good place,” and to the poor person,“You stand over there,” or“Sit on the floor”? 4 If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts? 7 Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to? 8 But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
  • 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves. 2 And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  • Num 14:36 : 36 The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”