5 Bible Verses about Contempt

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

They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.

without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal.

And they twisted a thorny crown for him, and put it on his head, and placed a reed in his right hand. Then they knelt before him, in mockery, crying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

Moreover he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves because they were righteous, and looked down upon the rest.

"The Pharisee stood apart and thus began to pray by himself. "'O God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax gatherer;

"He who listens to you listens to me. and he who rejects you, rejects me; he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me."

So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.

"For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself. "And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man. "Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again; read more.
"those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation.

especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and willful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities;

Yet in just the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, while they set at naught dominion and scoff at dignities.

Whenever he comes to me, send him on his way in peace, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

"His letters indeed," says one, "are mighty and forcible, but his personality is weak, and his speech contemptible."

Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

"See to it that you never despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father in heaven.

Those whose masters are Christian believers must not treat them with disrespect, because they are brothers; nay, rather slave for them the better because those who get the benefit of their services are believing and beloved. Continue to teach and preach this.

He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.

My brothers, do not hold the faith of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in a spirit of caste. Suppose a man comes into your synagogue with a gold ring and dazzling clothes, and suppose a poor man comes in, also, in shabby clothes, and you look up to him who wears the fine clothing, and say to him, "Sit here in this fine place!" and to the poor man you say, "Stand there!" or "Sit on the floor at my feet!"

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to court?