5 Bible Verses about Contempt, Examples Of

And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now days that break away each man from his master.

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.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?

For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with dishonor comes reproach.