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Thematic Bible: Despised


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Matthew 13:55
Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother called Mary, and His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? Verse ConceptsCraftsmenCarpentersOccupationsWork, As Ordained By GodHumility Of ChristChrist, Names ForChrist's Earthly FamilyWho He Might BeMothers And Sonsnegativity

Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him. Verse ConceptsAtonementFriendlessnessBeing Forsakenenemies, of Jesus ChristAttitudes Of RejectionHatredGriefRejection Of GodSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfHumility Of ChristProphecies Concerning ChristDespisersHiding From PeopleMessianic PropheciesSufferingRejectionValue

Mark 15:29-30
Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads, and saying, "Ha! The One who would demolish the sanctuary and build it in three days, save Yourself by coming down from the cross!"

Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him. Verse ConceptsCovetingFalse Teachers, Characteristics OfLove, Abuse OfMoney, Attitudes ToNosesSelf Righteousness, Nature OfMoneyCovetousness, Example OfDerisionCharacteristics Of PhariseesLoving MoneyMocking ChristCovetousnessFunpharisees

John 10:20
Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him?” Verse ConceptsHealthPrejudiceLunaticsAccused Of Being DemonisedReckoned InsaneThe DevilDemonic Influence

Jeremiah 6:19
Listen, earth!
I am about to bring disaster on these people,
the fruit of their own plotting,
for they have paid no attention to My word.
They have rejected My instruction.
 Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of God's CallRefusing To HearGod Will Bring Harm

Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
 Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

Isaiah 30:9
They are a rebellious people,
deceptive children,
children who do not want to obey the Lord’s instruction.
 Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsSin, Nature OfBible, Names OfRefusing To HearLying And Deceitrebellion

2 Chronicles 36:16
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy. Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleContemptMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of GodResentment, Against GodSin, And God's CharacterRejection Of Spiritual InstructionInfidelity To GodScoffersFunServant Leadershipprophetsacting

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons. Verse ConceptsBad CounselDangers Of IgnorancedecisionsPoverty, SpiritualRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRetributionAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceWisdom, Source Of HumanValuing KnowledgeGod ForgettingForsaking God's ThingsDeposingIgnorance of GodRejectionignorance

Jeremiah 9:13
The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned My instruction that I set in front of them and did not obey My voice or walk according to it. Verse ConceptsDisobedience, To GodForsaking God's ThingsBreaking God's Law

Psalm 78:10
They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.
 Verse ConceptsContemptDisobedience, To GodProvokingSelf WillBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's Law

Amos 2:4
The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord
and have not kept His statutes.
The lies that their ancestors followed
have led them astray.
 Verse ConceptsAncestorsBad ParentsFalse GodsGuidance, Need For God'sRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodAbominations, Judgments OfThree Or FourBreaking God's Law

Mark 7:9
He also said to them, “You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain your tradition! Verse ConceptsCommands, in NT

1 Thessalonians 5:20
Don’t despise prophecies,
 Verse ConceptsIrreverenceProphecyProphecies concerningexams

Ecclesiastes 9:16
And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.” Verse ConceptsLimitations Of StrengthBenefits Of WisdomPoor PeopleFamily StrengthSaving Moneystrengh

James 2:6
Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfJudgment SeatOppression, Nature OfRich, TheRiches, Dangers OfOppression, Examples OfRiches, Can Lead ToOppressorsNot Helping The PoorThe Rich Lording ItgaysBeing Gay

Proverbs 14:20
A poor man is hated even by his neighbor,
but there are many who love the rich. Verse ConceptsPoor PeopleRich, ThePoor, Oppression OfThe Rich Lording ItFriendsFriendship And LoveLove And FamilyFamily And Friendsshunning

Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
how much more do his friends
keep their distance from him!
He may pursue them with words,
but they are not there. Verse ConceptsAbandoning FriendsPoor PeopleImportunity, Towards PeopleLonelinessHatred Between RelativesRelativesFriends FailingBest FriendsHateFamily And FriendsFriendship Kjvshunning

Ecclesiastes 9:16
And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.” Verse ConceptsLimitations Of StrengthBenefits Of WisdomPoor PeopleFamily StrengthSaving Moneystrengh

James 2:6
Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfJudgment SeatOppression, Nature OfRich, TheRiches, Dangers OfOppression, Examples OfRiches, Can Lead ToOppressorsNot Helping The PoorThe Rich Lording ItgaysBeing Gay

Proverbs 14:20
A poor man is hated even by his neighbor,
but there are many who love the rich. Verse ConceptsPoor PeopleRich, ThePoor, Oppression OfThe Rich Lording ItFriendsFriendship And LoveLove And FamilyFamily And Friendsshunning

Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
how much more do his friends
keep their distance from him!
He may pursue them with words,
but they are not there. Verse ConceptsAbandoning FriendsPoor PeopleImportunity, Towards PeopleLonelinessHatred Between RelativesRelativesFriends FailingBest FriendsHateFamily And FriendsFriendship Kjvshunning

Luke 18:11
The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I’m not like other people —greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. Verse ConceptsExtortion, Examples OfAttitudes, in prayerHypocrisy, Description OfPrejudiceStandingStatusTax CollectorsHypocrites, Description OfSelf DelusionEvildoersNot Like PeopleAvoid AdulteryWe Thank GodConfession of sin

Proverbs 29:1
One who becomes stiff-necked,
after many reprimands
will be shattered instantly—
beyond recovery. Verse ConceptsProcrastinationSelf JustificationStubbornness, Consequences OfRejection Of God's CallDeath Of The WickedThe Insecurity Of The WickedStiffnecked PeopleNecksSelf WillSudden DestructionConsequences Of ObstinacyRecoveryHope And Healingrebuking

Proverbs 15:10
Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path;
the one who hates correction will die. Verse ConceptsGod's WaysLife, Of FaithRebukeReproofDeath For Other ReasonsRejecting Reprooffate

John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil. Verse ConceptsHatredPersecution, Forms OfSatan, Kingdom OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristThe Witness Of ChristAll NationsHating GodNot HatingUnable To Do Other ThingsWorld Opposed To God

Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but one who hates correction is stupid. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfRebukeValuing KnowledgeDisciplineHating GoodLoving GoodRejecting ReproofEducationDiscipline Childcriticismimprovement

Proverbs 5:12
and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.
 Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodResentment, Against PeopleRejection Of Spiritual InstructionAdvice, Rejecting Good AdviceAcademicsHating GoodRejecting Reprooftraining

Proverbs 10:17
The one who follows instruction is on the path to life,
but the one who rejects correction goes astray. Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersAcceptance, Of InstructionRebukePeople Going AstrayLife By WisdomRejecting Reproof

Proverbs 1:25
since you neglected all my counsel
and did not accept my correction,
 Verse ConceptsNeglecting God's ThingsGod's CounselRejecting ReproofWisdom And GuidanceGuidance And Strength

Amos 5:10
They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.
 Verse ConceptsHatredHonestySuperiorityBusiness At The GatewayHating The RighteousReproving PeopleReasons Why The World Hates ChristiansHatehatersrebuking

1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah, “So, you have caught me, my enemy.”

He replied, “I have caught you because you devoted yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight. Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingGrudgesCharacter Of WickedCourage, Examples OfFinding People

1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man who can ask Yahweh, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king shouldn’t say that!” Jehoshaphat replied. Verse ConceptsGrudgesHatredPersecution, Forms OfHating IndividualsNamed Prophets Of The LordFake Friends

1 Kings 18:17
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you destroyer of Israel?” Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersIs It Really?Troubling Groups Of People

Jeremiah 26:11
Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man deserves the death sentence because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.” Verse ConceptsDeath Penalty For Heresy

Numbers 14:9-10
Only don't rebel against the Lord, and don't be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Don't be afraid of them!" While the whole community threatened to stone them, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.

Acts 7:54
When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him. Verse ConceptsGesturesEmotions, Kinds OfBitingGrudgesSanhedrinSpiteTeethAnger, Sinful ExamplesApostasy, CauseGnashing Of TeethUnnamed People Angry With Others

Acts 5:33
When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them. Verse ConceptsAngry With ChristAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleWork Ethic

Luke 4:28-29
When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They got up, drove Him out of town, and brought Him to the edge of the hill their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff.

Mark 6:18-19
John had been telling Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife!" So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

2 Chronicles 16:10
Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time. Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAnger, HumanImprisonmentsOppression, Nature OfPrisonersProphets, Lives OfSpiteTemperAnger, Sinful ExamplesVindictiveness

Nehemiah 2:19
When Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked and despised us, and said, “What is this you’re doing? Are you rebelling against the king?” Verse ConceptsContempt, Examples OfLaughterMockeryRebellion, Against Human AuthorityRidicule, Nature OfSpeech, Negative Aspects OfCharacter Of Wicked

Nehemiah 4:2
before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?” Verse ConceptsJudaismCharacter Of WickedFeeblenessAnti semitismShort Time For Action

Psalm 119:141
I am insignificant and despised,
but I do not forget Your precepts.

2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. Verse ConceptsLeapingContempt, Examples OfHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityBad Wives ExamplesLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumpingjumping

Job 12:4
I am a laughingstock to my friends,
by calling on God, who answers me.
The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
 Verse ConceptsHumourRidicule, Objects OfAnswered PromisesThe Righteous PerishingGod Answered Prayerjoking

1 Samuel 17:42
When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a youth, healthy and handsome. Verse ConceptsDavid, Early LifePride, Examples OfSuperiorityAttractionDisdainLimitations Of YouthRed FacesAppearances ofteenagerHandsome Men

1 Corinthians 1:28
God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, Verse ConceptsChosen InstrumentsHumilityArrogant ExistenceChosen DisciplesOther Unimportant PeopleimportanceJustification Excluding Boasting

1 Corinthians 4:13
when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals. Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfBackbitingdirtGrace, In Human RelationshipsKindnessPersecution, Forms OfSlanderSpeech, Positive Aspects OfDuties To EnemiesDefamationUseless Peoplerumors

Jeremiah 6:19
Listen, earth!
I am about to bring disaster on these people,
the fruit of their own plotting,
for they have paid no attention to My word.
They have rejected My instruction.
 Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of God's CallRefusing To HearGod Will Bring Harm

Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
 Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

Isaiah 30:9
They are a rebellious people,
deceptive children,
children who do not want to obey the Lord’s instruction.
 Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsSin, Nature OfBible, Names OfRefusing To HearLying And Deceitrebellion

2 Chronicles 36:16
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy. Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleContemptMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of GodResentment, Against GodSin, And God's CharacterRejection Of Spiritual InstructionInfidelity To GodScoffersFunServant Leadershipprophetsacting

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons. Verse ConceptsBad CounselDangers Of IgnorancedecisionsPoverty, SpiritualRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRetributionAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceWisdom, Source Of HumanValuing KnowledgeGod ForgettingForsaking God's ThingsDeposingIgnorance of GodRejectionignorance

Jeremiah 9:13
The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned My instruction that I set in front of them and did not obey My voice or walk according to it. Verse ConceptsDisobedience, To GodForsaking God's ThingsBreaking God's Law

Psalm 78:10
They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.
 Verse ConceptsContemptDisobedience, To GodProvokingSelf WillBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's Law

Amos 2:4
The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah
for three crimes, even four,
because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord
and have not kept His statutes.
The lies that their ancestors followed
have led them astray.
 Verse ConceptsAncestorsBad ParentsFalse GodsGuidance, Need For God'sRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodAbominations, Judgments OfThree Or FourBreaking God's Law

Mark 7:9
He also said to them, “You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain your tradition! Verse ConceptsCommands, in NT

Proverbs 24:24
Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent”—
people will curse him, and tribes will denounce him;
 Verse ConceptsAbhorConnivanceAcquitting The Guilty

Jeremiah 4:30
And you, devastated one, what are you doing
that you dress yourself in scarlet,
that you adorn yourself with gold jewelry,
that you enlarge your eyes with paint?
You beautify yourself for nothing.
Your lovers reject you;
they want to take your life.
 Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

Proverbs 14:17
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,
and a man who schemes is hated. Verse ConceptsAngerAggressionShrewdnessTemperAnger In Christian LivingAnger ManagementQuick Tempered

Nahum 3:19
There is no remedy for your injury;
your wound is severe.
All who hear the news about you
will clap their hands because of you,
for who has not experienced
your constant cruelty? Verse ConceptsClappingApplauseWoundsIn One AnotherPeople Actually Doing EvilBruisesHope And Healing

Proverbs 12:8
A man is praised for his insight,
but a twisted mind is despised. Verse ConceptsCommendationProverbsPerversionDespising PeopleLife Despisedgays

Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the dust
of the earth will awake,
some to eternal life,
and some to shame and eternal contempt.
 Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversFutureEternal DeathAfterlifeeternal life, nature ofEternal PunishmentLast JudgmentLast ThingsMillenniumMortalityPunishment, By GodRegretResurrection, Of The DeadShameSleep, And DeathDeath Of The Saints, Results InEternal JudgmentEternal JudgementOur ResurrectionSecond Resurrection

Job 27:23
It claps its hands at him
and scorns him from its place. Verse ConceptsClappingHissing

Psalm 52:6
The righteous will look on with awe
and will ridicule him:
 Verse ConceptsLaughter

Isaiah 66:24
“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never go out, and they will be a horror to all mankind.” Verse ConceptsCarcass, Figurative UseGod, Justice OfHell, As An ExperienceRebellion, Against GodRegretSin, God's Judgment OnSinnersPeople Eaten By WormMaggotsFire Of HellKingdom Of Godworms

Zechariah 7:12
They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of Hosts. Verse ConceptsFlintCommunicationHardness Of HeartWilful IgnoranceMineralsProphecy, Inspiration Of OtRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodInsensibilityRejecting God's WordThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureResisting Holy SpiritNature Of The HeartHardnessPeople As RocksObstinate IndividualsGod Spoke By The ProphetsOld Testament Claims Inspiration

Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
 Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

Jeremiah 6:10
Who can I speak to and give such a warning
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,
so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.
 Verse ConceptsConvincingDeafnessHearingIndifferenceOffencePleasureRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodSpiritual DeafnessRejecting God's WordRefusing To HearWitnessing

Psalm 50:17
You hate instruction
and turn your back on My words.
 Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordHatredRejection Of GodRejection Of Spiritual InstructionRejection Of God's WordAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceRefusing To Hear

Jeremiah 36:23
As soon as Jehudi would read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut the scroll with a scribe’s knife and throw the columns into the blazing fire until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the brazier. Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesPensScrollsRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's WordThree Or FourReading The ScripturesBroken Things

Isaiah 30:12
Therefore the Holy One of Israel says:
“Because you have rejected this message
and have trusted in oppression and deceit,
and have depended on them,
 Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordRejection Of GodRejection Of God's Wordoppression

Jeremiah 8:9
The wise will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed and snared.
They have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom do they really have?
 Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfdiscouragementRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRejecting God's WordFalse WisdomForsaking God's ThingsShaming PeopleGod's Word Gives WisdomDisappointmentrelentlesswise

Jeremiah 20:8
For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I proclaim, “Violence and destruction!”
because the word of the Lord has become for me
constant disgrace and derision.
 Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's Wordjoking

Mark 7:13
You revoke God’s word by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.” Verse ConceptsAdding to the BibleRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRejecting God's WordThe Word Of Godculture

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