Bible Verses About Lukewarm Christians
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lukewarm christians, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,605 votes, led by Revelation 3:15-16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lukewarm Christians
Revelation 3:15-161,500 votes
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Revelation 3:14-22676 votes
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
1 John 2:15-16631 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Matthew 12:30375 votes
He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
2 Timothy 4:3355 votes
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;
Matthew 5:13343 votes
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Revelation 3:16323 votes
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
James 3:10-12290 votes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
1 John 3:10262 votes
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1 Peter 3:15221 votes
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Matthew 16:26199 votes
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
2 Corinthians 6:14-18195 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2 Timothy 3:4180 votes
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Matthew 12:33-37170 votes
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
2 Corinthians 6:14156 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Revelation 3:15150 votes
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
John 14:6128 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Revelation 3:17121 votes
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
1 Timothy 4:1114 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Matthew 7:21108 votes
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
2 Corinthians 13:5108 votes
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
James 4:17106 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Revelation 1:3104 votes
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Isaiah 29:13103 votes
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Romans 12:1101 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.
What does the Bible say about lukewarm christians?
Readers most often cite Revelation 3:15-16 on the subject of lukewarm christians. Across 10,605 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Revelation 3:14-22, 1 John 2:15-16, Matthew 12:30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.