A Word for Saints with Complaints
Philippians 2:12-16
Philippians 2:3 (NIV)
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others as better than yourselves.
Philippians 2:4 (NIV)
Each of you should look not only to your own interests
but to the interests of others.
Philippians 2:12 (NIV)
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians 2:12 (NIV)
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians 2:12 (NIV)
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
1 Corinthians 3:17 (ESV)
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:17 (ESV)
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Philippians 2:12b-13 (NIV)
continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
works: “to put one’s capabilities into operation, to be at work, to be active, operate, and be effective.”
Philippians 2:13 (NIV)
for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
Philippians 2:14 (ESV)
Do everything without grumbling or questioning,
Philippians 2:14 (NIV)
Do everything without complaining or arguing,
Philippians 2:15 (NIV)
so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
Exodus 15:24 (ESV)
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
Exodus 16:2 (ESV)
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,
Exodus 17:2-3 (ESV)
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
Numbers 11:1 (ESV)
And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outlying parts of the camp.
Numbers 14:27 (ESV)
“How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.
Numbers 16:11, (ESV)
Therefore, it is against the Lord that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?
Numbers 17:5 (ESV)
Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you.”
1 Corinthians 10:10 (NIV)
And do not grumble, as some of them did – and were killed by the destroying angel.
1 Corinthians 10:11 (ESV)
These things happened to them as examples and
were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
1 Corinthians 3:17 (ESV)
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Philippians 2:14 (ESV)
Do everything without grumbling or questioning,
Philippians 2:14 (NIV)
Do everything without complaining or arguing,
1st Stop for your sake
Philippians 2:15a (NIV)
so that you may become blameless and pure,
2nd Stop for the sake of others
Philippians 2:15-16a (NIV)
so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life
3rd Stop for the sake of your pastor
Philippians 2:16b (NIV)
in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. (NIV)
