Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  5000 Humanity  »  5760 Human attitudes and behaviour  »  5927 resentment  »  5928 resentment, against God

Resentment against God or Jesus Christ is usually the consequence of a lack of faith or unbelief or as a response to adverse circumstances.

Israel's resentment against God expressed in constant grumbling

Resentment at hardships and lack of provisions

Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:2-3; Exodus 17:3; Numbers 20:2-5; Numbers 21:4-5

Resentment due to faithless fear

Exodus 14:10-11; Numbers 14:2-3,36; Deuteronomy 1:27; Psalm 106:25

God's response to Israel's resentment

Punishment

Numbers 11:1; Numbers 14:27-30,37; Psalm 106:26-27; 1 Corinthians 10:10

Merciful provision

Exodus 16:4,8-9,11-12; Numbers 17:5,10

Expressions of resentment

At suffering

Job 10:1 See also Job 3:20-26; Job 7:11; 1 Samuel 1:10; Psalm 77:1-3; Psalm 142:2; Jeremiah 15:18

At apparently unjust treatment by God

Ruth 1:20-21 See also Job 23:2; Isaiah 40:27

At God's word

Mark 6:18-19 See also 1 Kings 20:42-43; Kings 21:4; 2 Chronicles 30:10; 2 C 16

The folly of resentment

Job 5:2 See also Psalm 73:21-22; Proverbs 15:12; Proverbs 19:3; Lamentations 3:39

The evil of resentment

Job 36:13 See also James 3:14-16; Jude 16

Resentment towards Jesus Christ

At his miracles

Matthew 13:54-58 pp Mark 6:1-6; Matthew 21:15

At his teaching

Matthew 15:12; John 6:60-61

At his claims

John 6:41-43

See also

2545  Christ, opposition to
5791  anger, human
5799  bitterness
8834  unbelief