11 Bible Verses about Contempt

Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was close by, said, "If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!"

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother named Mary? And aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?

They replied, "You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?" So they threw him out.

When David's oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said, "Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!"

The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.

The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.

But you, O Lord, laugh in disgust at them; you taunt all the nations.

so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

Although he is scornful to arrogant scoffers, yet he shows favor to the humble.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.

He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: "Hail, king of the Jews!"

But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

They say, 'Keep to yourself! Don't get near me, for I am holier than you!' These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers -- or even like this tax collector.

"The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

A fool rejects his father's discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the Lord is their shelter.

So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, but a poor man's wisdom is despised; no one ever listens to his advice.

"At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress unlike any other from the nation's beginning up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those whose names are found written in the book, will escape. Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake -- some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. "Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice read more.
and will come out -- the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

So then, let no one treat him with contempt. But send him on his way in peace so that he may come to me. For I am expecting him with the brothers.

because some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account."

But Nabal responded to David's servants, "Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters! Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don't even know where they came from!"

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

But some wicked men said, "How can this man save us?" They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, and purity.

The one who denounces his neighbor lacks wisdom, but the one who has discernment keeps silent.

I am insignificant and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts.

They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.'"

"See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

But those who have believing masters must not show them less respectTeach them and exhort them about these things.

As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him.

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all. You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi," says the Lord who rules over all. "Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction."

When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.

The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you; all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet. They will call you, 'The City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'

He had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. Once Hagar realized she was pregnant, she despised Sarai.

"If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me, then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes, do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say, "You sit here in a good place," and to the poor person, "You stand over there," or "Sit on the floor"?

We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.

Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?