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What the Bible Says About Lukewarmness

Overview

The Bible addresses lukewarmness across 12 verses, drawn from both the Old and New Testaments. These passages cluster most in Haggai and Revelation. Closely related themes include Temple, the Second, Selfishness, Parsimony and Vineyards.

Key Bible verses about lukewarmness

Old Testament

Haggai

Haggai 1:4

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Consider: Heb. Set your heart on your ways

Haggai 1:6

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. with holes: Heb. pierced through

Haggai 1:7

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Consider: Heb. Set your heart on your ways

Haggai 1:8

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

Haggai 1:9

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. blow: or, blow it away

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

Haggai 1:11

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Haggai 2:15

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

Haggai 2:16

Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

In the Bible dictionary

Studying lukewarmness for yourself

  • Begin with Haggai 1:4, then read the passages below in canonical order.
  • Compare how Haggai and Revelation each treat the theme.
  • Widen the study to related themes: Temple, the Second, Selfishness, Parsimony and Vineyards.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Bible say about lukewarmness?

The Bible addresses lukewarmness across 12 verses, drawn from both the Old and New Testaments. These passages cluster most in Haggai and Revelation. Closely related themes include Temple, the Second, Selfishness, Parsimony and Vineyards.

How many Bible verses are about lukewarmness?

The Bible references lukewarmness in 12 verses (King James Version).

Where does the Bible first mention lukewarmness?

In canonical order, the first of these passages is Haggai 1:4: “Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?”

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