Thematic Bible: Despised

Is not this the woodworker's son? is not his mother named Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? Verse Concepts

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him. Verse Concepts

And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days, Keep yourself from death, and come down from the cross.

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him. Verse Concepts

And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him? Verse Concepts

Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law. Verse Concepts

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel. Verse Concepts

For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord: Verse Concepts

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help. Verse Concepts

Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory. Verse Concepts

And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it; Verse Concepts

They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law; Verse Concepts

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way. Verse Concepts

And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you. Verse Concepts

Do not make little of the words of the prophets; Verse Concepts

Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing. Verse Concepts

But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges? Verse Concepts

The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends. Verse Concepts

All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ... Verse Concepts

Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing. Verse Concepts

But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges? Verse Concepts

The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends. Verse Concepts

All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ... Verse Concepts

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer. Verse Concepts

A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again. Verse Concepts

There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching. Verse Concepts

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil. Verse Concepts

A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast. Verse Concepts

And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; Verse Concepts

He who takes note of teaching is a way of life, but he who gives up training is a cause of error. Verse Concepts

You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: Verse Concepts

They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them. Verse Concepts

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord. Verse Concepts

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. Verse Concepts

And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel? Verse Concepts

Then the priests and the prophets said to the rulers and to all the people, The right fate for this man is death; for he has said words against this town in your hearing. Verse Concepts

Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them. But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him. Verse Concepts

But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death. Verse Concepts

And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them. And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.

For John said to Herod, It is wrong for you to have your brother's wife. And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people. Verse Concepts

But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king? Verse Concepts

And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust? Verse Concepts

I am small and of no account; but I keep your orders in mind.

And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish. Verse Concepts

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of! Verse Concepts

And when the Philistine, taking note, saw David, he had a poor opinion of him: for he was only a boy, red-haired and good-looking. Verse Concepts

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are: Verse Concepts

When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now. Verse Concepts