Bible Verses About Entitlement
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for entitlement, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 47,382 votes, led by James 4:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Entitlement
James 4:61,540 votes
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
2 Thessalonians 3:101,153 votes
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:121,090 votes
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Luke 4:181,085 votes
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
James 4:1-121,070 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
1 Timothy 5:81,028 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Ephesians 4:1-321,021 votes
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
1 John 4:161,000 votes
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Proverbs 13:1-25993 votes
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Matthew 23:1-39945 votes
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Matthew 20:1-16922 votes
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
Matthew 25:1-46894 votes
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Romans 12:19862 votes
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Revelation 1:1854 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
James 4:2617 votes
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Proverbs 13:24596 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Philippians 2:3544 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Ephesians 4:28540 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Psalms 23:4538 votes
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Romans 12:1-2527 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Philippians 2:5-8527 votes
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:8-10523 votes
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
1 Thessalonians 4:10-12523 votes
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
Proverbs 1:7522 votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1 Corinthians 1:26-29522 votes
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
What does the Bible say about entitlement?
Readers most often cite James 4:6 on the subject of entitlement. Across 47,382 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Thessalonians 3:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:12, Luke 4:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.