Philippians 2:14

Do everything without grumbling or arguing. A complaining, quarrelsome spirit undermines the witness of God's people.

Cross-references · 33

• 1 Pet 4:9Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
• 1 Cor 10:10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
• Jas 5:9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Phil 2:3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
• Rom 12:18If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
• Exod 16:7–8And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
• 1 Th 5:15See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
• Jas 1:20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
• Gal 5:26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Jas 3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
• Prov 15:17–18Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
• Gal 5:15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Rom 14:1Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
• Jude 1:16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
• Ps 106:25But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
• Heb 12:14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
• Rom 16:17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
• 1 Tim 6:3–5If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
• 1 Pet 3:11Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
• Acts 15:2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
• Acts 6:1And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
• 1 Th 5:13And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
• 1 Cor 3:3–5For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
• 1 Cor 1:10–12Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Mark 9:33–34And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
• Num 14:27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• Mark 14:5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
• Matt 20:11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
• Acts 15:7And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
• Acts 15:39And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
• Prov 13:10Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

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