Biblical Concept: Despise

Findings:

“those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed”

God is not arbitrary to despise.

^NAS Psalm 36:4 He plans wickedness upon his bed; He sets himself on a path that is not good; He does

not despise evil.

The wicked: “He does not despise evil”

Broken spirit, broken contrite heart, not despise relationship.

Needy, prisoners, not despise relationship.

^NAS Psalm 119:163 I hate and despise falsehood, But I love Thy law.

Despise falsehood.

“Fools despise wisdom and instruction”

^NAS Proverbs 6:30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry;

^NAS Proverbs 23:9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

^NAS Ecclesiastes 9:16 So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the wisdom of the poor man is

despised and his words are not heeded.

^NAS Proverbs 12:8 A man will be praised according to his insight, But one of perverse mind will be

despised.

“do not despise your mother when she is old”

“To despise all the honored of the earth”

“Your lovers despise you”

“Do not despise us, for Thine own name's sake”

^NAS Isaiah 1:4 Alas, sinful nation, People weighed down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act

corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have

turned away from Him.

Israel: “despised the word of the Holy One of Israel”

^NAS Jeremiah 23:17 "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.'

“they despise My people”

“All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness”

Israel: “those surrounding you who despise you”

“O priests who despise My name”

“despise authority”

“Zebulun was a people who despised their lives even to death”

^NAS Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; And

like one from whom men hide their face, He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

“the despised, God has chosen”

^NAS Proverbs 13:13 The one who despises the word will be in debt to it, But the one who fears the

commandment will be rewarded.

^NAS Hebrews 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before

Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Jesus … “despising the shame.”

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Despise

^NAS 1 Samuel 2:30 "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. (“those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed”)

^NAS Job 5:17 "Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves, So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

^NAS Job 9:21 "I am guiltless; I do not take notice of myself; I despise my life.

^NAS Job 19:18 "Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me.

^NAS Job 36:5 "Behold, God is mighty but does not despise any; He is mighty in strength of understanding. (God is not arbitrary to despise.) (See vv. 6-12.)

^NAS Psalm 36:4 He plans wickedness upon his bed; He sets himself on a path that is not good; He does not despise evil. (All) (The wicked: “He does not despise evil”)

^NAS Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise. (Broken spirit, broken contrite heart, not despise relationship.)

^NAS Psalm 69:33 For the LORD hears the needy, And does not despise His who are prisoners. (Needy, prisoners, not despise relationship.)

^NAS Psalm 73:20 Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, Thou wilt despise their form.

^NAS Psalm 119:163 I hate and despise falsehood, But I love Thy law. (All) (Despise falsehood.)

^NAS Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction. (“Fools despise wisdom and instruction”)

^NAS Proverbs 6:30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry; (All)

^NAS Proverbs 23:9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words. (All)

²² Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. (“do not despise your mother when she is old”)

^NAS Song of Solomon 8:1 "Oh that you were like a brother to me Who nursed at my mother's breasts. If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you; No one would despise me, either.

^NAS Isaiah 23:9 The LORD of hosts has planned it to defile the pride of all beauty, To despise all the honored of the earth. (“To despise all the honored of the earth”)

^NAS Jeremiah 4:30 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. (“Your lovers despise you”)

^NAS Jeremiah 14:21 Do not despise us, for Thine own name's sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Thy glory; Remember and do not annul Thy covenant with us. (“Do not despise us, for Thine own name's sake”)

^NAS Jeremiah 23:17 "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.' (All)

^NAS Jeremiah 33:24 "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. (“they despise My people”)

^NAS Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem sinned greatly, Therefore she has become an unclean thing. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even she herself groans and turns away. (“All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness”)

^NAS Ezekiel 16:57 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. (Israel: “those surrounding you who despise you”)

^NAS Malachi 1:6 "'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 Thy name?' (“O priests who despise My name”)

^NAS Matthew 6:24 "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

^NAS Matthew 18:10 "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their angels in heaven continually behold the face of My Father who is in heaven.

^NAS Luke 16:13 "No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

^NAS 1 Corinthians 11:22 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.

^NAS 1 Corinthians 16:11 Let no one therefore despise him. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

^NAS Galatians 4:14 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.

^NAS 1 Thessalonians 5:20 do not despise prophetic utterances.

^NAS 2 Peter 2:10 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, (“despise authority”)

Despised

^NAS Genesis 16:4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms; but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me."

^NAS Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose and went on his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

^NAS Numbers 15:31 'Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall be on him.'"

^NAS Judges 5:18 "Zebulun was a people who despised their lives even to death, And Naphtali also, on the high places of the field. (“Zebulun was a people who despised their lives even to death”)

^NAS Judges 9:38 Then Zebul said to him, "Where is your boasting now with which you said, 'Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?' Is this not the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them!"

^NAS 1 Samuel 2:17 Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD, for the men despised the offering of the LORD.

^NAS 1 Samuel 10:27 But certain worthless men said, "How can this one deliver us?" And they despised him and did not bring him any present. But he kept silent.

^NAS 1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

^NAS 2 Samuel 6:16 Then it happened as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

^NAS 2 Samuel 12:9 'Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

¹⁰ 'Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'

^NAS 2 Kings 19:21 "This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: 'She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

^NAS 1 Chronicles 15:29 And it happened when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and making merry; and she despised him in her heart.

^NAS 2 Chronicles 36:16 but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, until there was no remedy.

^NAS Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard it, they mocked us and despised us and said, "What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

^NAS Nehemiah 4:4 Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.

^NAS Job 31:13 "If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves When they filed a complaint against me,

^NAS Psalm 15:4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honors those who fear the LORD; He swears to his own hurt, and does not change;

^NAS Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and not a man, A reproach of men, and despised by the people.

²⁴ For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither has He hidden His face from him; But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

^NAS Psalm 102:17 He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, And has not despised their prayer.

^NAS Psalm 106:24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,

^NAS Psalm 119:141 I am small and despised, Yet I do not forget Thy precepts.

^NAS Proverbs 12:8 A man will be praised according to his insight, But one of perverse mind will be despised. (All)

^NAS Ecclesiastes 9:16 So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words are not heeded. (All)

^NAS Song of Solomon 8:7 "Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly despised."

^NAS Isaiah 1:4 Alas, sinful nation, People weighed down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him. (All)

^NAS Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble, And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Israel: “despised the word of the Holy One of Israel”)

^NAS Isaiah 33:8 The highways are desolate, the traveler has ceased, He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, He has no regard for man.

^NAS Isaiah 37:22 this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: "She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

^NAS Isaiah 49:7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and its Holy One, To the despised One, To the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of rulers, "Kings shall see and arise, Princes shall also bow down; Because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You."

^NAS Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face, He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. (All)

^NAS Isaiah 60:14 "And the sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you, And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet; And they will call you the city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

^NAS Jeremiah 22:28 "Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar? Or is he an undesirable vessel? Why have he and his descendants been hurled out And cast into a land that they had not known?

^NAS Jeremiah 49:15 "For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.

^NAS Lamentations 1:11 All her people groan seeking bread; They have given their precious things for food To restore their lives themselves. "See, O LORD, and look, For I am despised."

^NAS Lamentations 2:6 And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place; The LORD has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.

^NAS Ezekiel 16:59 For thus says the Lord God, "I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

^NAS Ezekiel 17:16 'As I live,' declares the Lord God, 'Surely in the country of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, in Babylon he shall die.

¹⁸ 'Now he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he pledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.'"

¹⁹ Therefore, thus says the Lord God, "As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will inflict on his head.

^NAS Ezekiel 22:8 "You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.

^NAS Obadiah 1:2 "Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised.

^NAS Zechariah 4:10 "For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel-- these are the eyes of the LORD which range to and fro throughout the earth."

^NAS Malachi 1:6 "'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 Thy name?'

⁷ "You are presenting defiled food upon My altar. But you say, 'How have we defiled Thee?' In that you say, 'The table of the LORD is to be despised.'

¹² "But you are profaning it, in that you say, 'The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.'

^NAS Malachi 2:9 "So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways, but are showing partiality in the instruction.

^NAS 1 Corinthians 1:28 and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are, (“the despised, God has chosen”)

Despises

^NAS Proverbs 11:12 He who despises his neighbor lacks sense, But a man of understanding keeps silent.

^NAS Proverbs 13:13 The one who despises the word will be in debt to it, But the one who fears the commandment will be rewarded. (All)

^NAS Proverbs 14:2 He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, But he who is crooked in his ways despises Him.

²¹ He who despises his neighbor sins, But happy is he who is gracious to the poor.

^NAS Proverbs 15:20 A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.

³² He who neglects discipline despises himself, But he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.

^NAS Ezekiel 21:13 "For there is a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more?" declares the Lord God.

Despising

^NAS Ezekiel 21:10 'Sharpened to make a slaughter, Polished to flash like lightning!' Or shall we rejoice, the rod of My son despising every tree?

^NAS Hebrews 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (All) (Jesus … “despising the shame.”)

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