Bible Verses about “apathy”
The Bible contains 42 verses about apathy across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].”
“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”
“¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
“But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;”
“[Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”
“And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
“¶ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”
“Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;”
“Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.”
“[Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.”
“‹So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.›”
“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
“‹I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.›”
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”
“‹Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.›”
“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.”
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
“‹Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.›”
“¶ Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.”
“¶ The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain.”
“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”
“‹And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.›”
“Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.”
“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.”
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”
“‹Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly› [is] ‹ready, but the flesh› [is] ‹weak.›”
“For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.”
“¶ But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.”
“But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.”
“Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”
“And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.”
“And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.”
“And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, ‹Sleep on now, and take› [your] ‹rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.›”
“Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.”
“And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
“Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.”