5 Bible Verses about Contempt, Examples Of

And Nabal answered David's servants and said, "What is David? And what is the son of Jesse? There is plenty of servants nowadays, that break away every 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 spring and dance before the LORD, and therefore despised him in her heart.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, "What is this that ye do? Will ye fall away again from the king?"

"For the epistles," saith he, "are sore and strong: but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech homely."

Where ungodliness is, there is also disdain; and so there followeth shame and dishonour.