What Does the Bible Say About Not Being Appreciated?

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

James 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

James 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

Galatians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”

Luke 9:51-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” But he turned and rebuked them.

Mark 11:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.

Proverbs 22:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

2 Chronicles 16:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.

Numbers 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”

Genesis 4:3-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.” ...

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

26 Bible Verses about Not Being Appreciated

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 9:51-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 11:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 16:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 4:3-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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26 Bible Verses about Not Being Appreciated

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Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 9:51-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 11:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 16:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 4:3-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes