Bible Verses about 'Despise'
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and instruction. - Blessed is the one whom God corrects;
so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. - My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise. - No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
- My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline,
and do not resent his rebuke,
because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
as a father the son he delights in. - Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
- The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
- He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. - A fool spurns a parent’s discipline,
but whoever heeds correction shows prudence. - God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
- Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,
but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.
Bible verse of the day
A person’s riches may ransom their life,but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.