11 Bible Verses about Contempt

And Tobiah the Ammonite near him, and he will say, Also that they are building, if a fox shall go up, and he brake their walls of stones.

And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they will mock to us and despise us, and say, What this word that ye do? are ye bearing rule against the king?

Is not this the son of the carpenter? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

They answered and said to him, In sins wert thou wholly born, and teachest thou us? And they cast him without.

And Eliab his brother the great, will hear in his speaking to the men, and Eliab's anger will kindle against David, and he will say, Why this camest thou down? and upon whom didst thou cast those few sheep in the desert? I knew thy pride and the evil of thy heart, for in order to see the battle thou camest down.

Jehovah shall laugh at him: for he saw that his day will come.

He dwelling in the heavens shall laugh: Jehovah shall deride to them.

And thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt deride at all the nations.

Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;

But he will deride to those deriding: and he will give grace to the humble.

Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,

For this as the tongue of fire consumes the straw, and the dry grass of flame will collapse: their root shall be as rottenness, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of Jehovah of armies, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they despised.

In the coming of the unjust also came contempt, and with dishonor, reproach.

He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not

And having twined a crown of thorns, they put upon, his head: and a reed upon his right hand: and having fallen upon the knees before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

And I a worm and not a man; a reproach of man, and the people despised me.

And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable:

Saying, Come near to thyself; thou shalt not touch upon me, for I was clean to thee. These a smoke in my wrath, a fire burning all the day.

The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.

He hearing you hears me and he rejecting you rejects me; and he rejecting me rejects him having sent me.

For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.

A wise son will gladden the father: and the foolish man despised his mother.

The foolish will deride his father's instruction: and he watching reproof will be crafty.

Ye will shame the counsel of the poor, for Jehovah is his refuge.

And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard.

And in that time Michael the great chief shall stand up, he standing for the sons of thy people: and it was a time of straits that was not from there being a nation, even to that time: and in that time thy people shall escape, every one being found written in the book. And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.

For as the Father has life in himself, so also gave he to the Son to have life in himself; And gave him authority also to do judgment, because he is the Son of man. Wonder not at this: for the hour comes, in which all they in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall go forth; read more.
They having done good, to rising up of life; and they having done bad, to rising up of judgment.

Hear, O our God; for we were despised: and turn back their reproach upon their head, and wilt thou give them for plunder in the land of captivity?

Compassionate us, O Jehovah, compassionate us: for we were much filled with contempt

And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories.

And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.

Therefore no one should despise him: and send ye him forward in peace, that he might come to me: for I expect him with the brethren.

(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)

And Nabal will answer David's servants, and say, Who is David? and who the son of Jesse? this day there were many servants breaking away a man from the face of his lord. And took I my bread and my water, and my slaughter which I slaughtered for my shearers, and gave to men whom I knew not from whence they are?

Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.

And the sons of Belial said, What shall this save us? And they will despise him and will not bring him a gift; and he will be as keeping silence.

Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

He wanting heart despised for his neighbor: and a man of understanding will be silent.

I am small and despised: I did not forget thy charges.

And they dwelt upon it with confidence, and, they built houses, and they planted vineyards; and they dwelt with confidence in my doing judgments upon all those despising them from round about them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah their God.

See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That their messengers in the heavens always behold the face of my Father which is in the heavens.

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

And the ark of Jehovah was coming to the city of David, and Michal, Saul's daughter, looked forth without the window, and she will see king David being strengthened and leaping before Jehovah, and she will despise him in her heart.

For the lips of the priest shall watch knowledge, and they shall seek the law from his mouth: for he is the messenger of Jehovah of armies. And ye departed out of the way; ye made many weak by the law; ye corrupted the covenant of Levi, said Jehovah of armies. And also I set you despised and low to all the people, according as ye watch not my way, and lift up the face against the law.

In the coming of the unjust also came contempt, and with dishonor, reproach.

And sons humbling thee came bowing down to thee: and all they despising thee worshiped at the soles of thy feet; and they called thee, The city of Jehovah, Zion, the Holy One of Israel

And Abram will go in to Hagar, and she will conceive, and she will see that she conceived; and her mistress will be despised in her eyes.

If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me; And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?

Let not him eating despise him not eating: and let not him not eating judge him eating: for God has received him.

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, of glory, with distinction of faces. For if there come into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings on is fingers, in brilliant clothing, and there come in also a beggar in filthy clothing; And ye look toward him bearing the brilliant clothing, and ye say to him, Sit thou well here; and to the beggar ye say, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

Much was our soul filled with it, a derision of those living at ease the contempt of the proud.

Also children rejected me; I shall arise, and they will speak against me.

And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?