Thematic Bible: Despised


Thematic Bible



Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?


And those that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads and saying, Ah, thou that would destroy the temple of God and build it in three days, save thyself and come down from the cross .


And many of them said, He has a demon and is beside himself; why do ye hear him?


Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts because they have not hearkened unto my words, and they hated my law.

Therefore as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go away as dust because they have cast away the law of the LORD of the hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

That this is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that did not desire to hear the law of the LORD:

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, and there was no remedy.

My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.

And the LORD said, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not heard my voice, neither walked therein,

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law

Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Judah and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have despised the law of the LORD and have not kept his statutes, and their lies caused them to err after which their fathers have walked:

And he also said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.




Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength: even though the poor man's knowledge is despised, and his words are not heard.



All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more shall his friends separate themselves from him? He shall seek their friendship and not find it.


Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength: even though the poor man's knowledge is despised, and his words are not heard.



All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more shall his friends separate themselves from him? He shall seek their friendship and not find it.


The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are: extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.



Chastening is grievous unto him that forsakes the way, but he that hates reproof shall die.




He is in the way of life that gives heed to chastening, but he that refuses reproof errs.

for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof:



And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

And the king of Israel replied unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah, the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubles Israel?


Then the priests and the prophets spoke unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he has prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears.

Therefore, do not be rebels against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are our bread; their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them. Then all the multitude spoke of stoning them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the testimony before all the sons of Israel.



When they heard that, they were divided and took counsel to slay them.


And all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of the hill upon which their city was built that they might cast him down headlong.


For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him and would have killed him, but she could not;


Then Asa was wroth with the seer and put him in the prison house, for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa killed some of the people at the same time.


But when Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the slave, 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?

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Is this to be permitted them? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish on time? Will they resurrect the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which were burned?

I am small and despised; yet I have not forgotten thy precepts.

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.

He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn.

And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth and ruddy and of a fair countenance.

and that which is vile of the world and that which is despised God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are,



Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts because they have not hearkened unto my words, and they hated my law.

Therefore as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go away as dust because they have cast away the law of the LORD of the hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

That this is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that did not desire to hear the law of the LORD:

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, and there was no remedy.

My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.

And the LORD said, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not heard my voice, neither walked therein,

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law

Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Judah and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have despised the law of the LORD and have not kept his statutes, and their lies caused them to err after which their fathers have walked:

And he also said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.


He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the peoples curse, nations shall abhor him:

And thou who art destroyed, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with crimson, though thou deck thee with ornaments of gold, though thou paint thy eyes with antimony, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee; they will seek thy life.

He that is soon angry shall deal foolishly, and the man of wicked devices shall be hated.

There is no cure for thy destruction; thy wound is grievous; all that hear thy story shall clap their hands over thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.


Men shall clap their hands at him, and from his place they shall hiss at him.

The righteous also shall see and fear and shall laugh at him, saying:

And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.



Therefore as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go away as dust because they have cast away the law of the LORD of the hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

To whom shall I speak, and give warning that they may hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken, behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.


And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in violence and perversity and build upon this:

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

For since I spoke out, I raised my voice crying, Violence and destruction; because the word of the LORD has been a reproach unto me and a derision, daily.

invalidating the word of God with your tradition, which ye have given; and many such like things do ye.