'Insult' in the Bible

When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, "Blessed be the LORD who has judged the dispute over my insult at the hand of Nabal, and has held back his servant from evil. The LORD has repaid Nabal's wickedness."

Turn your ear, LORD, and listen! Open your eyes, LORD, and observe! Listen to the message sent by Sennacherib to insult the living God!

The righteous will see this and rejoice; the innocent will insult him, saying,

Zeal for your house consumes me, and the mockeries of those who insult you fall on me.

Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult, and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.

The anger of a fool becomes readily apparent, but the prudent person overlooks an insult.

You are aware LORD, remember me, pay attention to me, and vindicate me in front of those who pursue me. You are patient don't take me away. Know that I suffer insult because of you!

All of your enemies insult you with gaping mouths. They hiss and grind their teeth while saying, "We have devoured her completely. Yes, this is the day that we anticipated! We found it at last; we have seen it!"

I'm also going to turn you into a waste and an object of insult among the nations that surround you and in front of every person who passes by.

As a result, Jerusalem will become an insult, an object of taunt, an example of chastisement, and a useless waste to all the nations that surround you when I carry out my sentence against you in my anger, my burning rage, and my burning rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken it.

"How blessed are you whenever people insult you, persecute you, and say all sorts of evil things against you falsely because of me!

"How blessed are you whenever people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and slander you because of the Son of Man!

Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who insult you.

Then one of the experts in the Law told him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us, too."

But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles."

The men standing near him asked, "Do you mean to insult God's high priest?"

For even the Messiah did not please himself. Instead, as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

They are not to insult anyone or be argumentative. Instead, they are to be gentle and perfectly courteous to everyone.

Do not pay others back evil for evil or insult for insult. Instead, keep blessing them, because you were called to inherit a blessing.

They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.

These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,