Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Despised
Misused
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Bible References
Despised
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
Acts 13:41
Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish. For I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, though one fully declare it to you.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.
Misused
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and leap for joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and rigged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They slew also those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers;
General references
Matthew 21:35
And the vine-dressers took his servants, and scourged one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.