Despise

And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

…and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.

For the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

…then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

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

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

…before your wickedness was uncovered? Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you.

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!

And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.