Bible Verses About Contempt
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Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
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And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
10And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.