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 4:9Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
• 1 Cor 10:10Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
• Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• Phil 2:3doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
• Rom 12:18If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
• Exod 16:7–8and in the morning, then you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”
• 1 Th 5:15See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.
• Jas 1:20for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
• Gal 5:26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
• Jas 3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• Prov 15:17–18Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
• Gal 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
• Rom 14:1Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
• Jude 1:16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
• Ps 106:25but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.
• Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
• Rom 16:17Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
• 1 Tim 6:3–5If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• 1 Pet 3:11Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
• Acts 15:2Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
• Acts 6:1Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
• 1 Th 5:13and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
• 1 Cor 3:3–5for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• 1 Cor 1:10–12Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Mark 9:33–34He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”
• Num 14:27“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• Mark 14:5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” They grumbled against her.
• Matt 20:11When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
• Acts 15:7When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.
• Acts 15:39Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus,
• Prov 13:10Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

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