15 Bible Verses about Despisers

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

"'Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.'"

would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof,

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

"Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

"Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.

I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.

My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof,

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.

But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar"?