Bible Verses about โlukewarm christiansโ
The Bible contains 31 verses about lukewarm christians across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โDon't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?โ
โDon't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.โ
โFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.โ
โtraitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;โ
โBut sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:โ
โFor the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;โ
โI tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.โ
โSo, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.โ
โ"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.โ
โOut of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.โ
โWhat agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?โ
โWhat agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."โ
โ"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.โ
โFor by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."โ
โTherefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.โ
โI will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."โ
โBehold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.โ
โFor what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?โ
โDoes a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?โ
โIn this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.โ
โCan a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.โ
โHe who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.โ
โThe good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.โ
โAs many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.โ
โ"He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.โ
โYou offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.โ
โBecause you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;โ
โI counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.โ
โ"To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:โ
โHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies."โ
โ"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.โ
