'Despise' in the Bible

Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

“Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves,So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

“I am guiltless;I do not take notice of myself;I despise my life.

“Even young children despise me;I rise up and they speak against me.

“Behold, God is mighty but does not despise any;He is mighty in strength of understanding.

He plans wickedness upon his bed;He sets himself on a path that is not good;He does not despise evil.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

For the Lord hears the needyAnd does not despise His who are prisoners.

Like a dream when one awakes,O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

I hate and despise falsehood,But I love Your law.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Men do not despise a thief if he stealsTo satisfy himself when he is hungry;

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Listen to your father who begot you,And do not despise your mother when she is old.

“Oh that you were like a brother to meWho nursed at my mother’s breasts.If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you;No one would despise me, either.

The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,To despise all the honored of the earth.

And you, O desolate one, what will you do?Although you dress in scarlet,Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold,Although you enlarge your eyes with paint,In vain you make yourself beautiful.Your lovers despise you;They seek your life.

Do not despise us, for Your own name’s sake;Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory;Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us.

“They keep saying to those who despise Me,‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace”’;And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,They say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’

“Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them’? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

Jerusalem sinned greatly,Therefore she has become an unclean thing.All who honored her despise herBecause they have seen her nakedness;Even she herself groans and turns away.

before your wickedness was uncovered, so now you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you.

So let no one despise him. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

and that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition you did not despise or loathe, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

do not despise prophetic utterances.

and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority.Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,