Complacency

A self-satisfied state of negligence or carelessness, especially in relation to one's personal situation.

Spiritual complacency

Zephaniah 1:12; Luke 12:19 See also Deuteronomy 8:14; 2 Chronicles 20:33; Psalm 10:4; Isaiah 43:22, Isaiah 64:7; Jeremiah 10:21; Ezekiel 33:31; Daniel 9:13; Hosea 7:7; Zephaniah 1:6; Hebrews 6:12, Hebrews 12:25

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

Examples of complacency

Jeremiah 6:14; Obadiah 1:3; 1 Corinthians 5:1–2 See also Proverbs 30:20; Isaiah 16:6; Ezekiel 28:2; Haggai 1:2; Malachi 1:6–14; Matthew 7:26, Matthew 22:5, Matthew 26:33; Luke 12:47–48, Luke 14:18; 1 Corinthians 4:8; Revelation 3:15–17

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

Warnings against complacency

Amos 6:1; 2 Corinthians 13:5 See also Proverbs 1:32, Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 12:27; Ecclesiastes 10:18; Isaiah 32:9, Isaiah 32:11, Isaiah 47:8–9; Ezekiel 30:9; 1 Corinthians 10:12; Hebrews 2:3

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you — unless you fail the test?