'Despise' in the Bible
And Yahweh said to Moses, "How long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, [and] in all the signs that I have done in their midst?
Why do you despise my sacrifice and my offering which I commanded [for my] dwelling place, while you honored your sons more than me by making yourselves fat from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel?
Therefore,' {declares} Yahweh the God of Israel, 'though I solemnly said that your house and the house of your ancestor would walk before me forever, but now,' {declares} Yahweh, 'far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me, I will treat with contempt!
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "[There is] still one man to inquire from Yahweh, but I despise him, for he never prophesies [anything] good concerning me, but only bad: Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say so."
"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,
Is it good for you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your hands, and you smile over the schemes of [the] wicked?
Little boys also despise me; [when] I rise, then they talk against me.
Look, God [is] mighty but does not despise [anyone]; [he is] mighty [and] {good in understanding}.
Therefore I despise [myself] and repent in dust and ashes."
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
because Yahweh hears [the] needy and does not despise his [own who are] prisoners.
Like a dream upon awakening, when [you] wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.
He will turn his attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
Fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise.
Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof
[People] do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.
A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.
In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
{How I wish that you were my little brother}, [who] nursed {upon my mother's breasts}! [If] {I met you outside}, I would kiss you, {and no one would despise me}!
Jerusalem sinned grievously, thus she became an objection of derision; all those who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away.
And they will live on it in safety, and they will build houses, and they will plant vineyards, and they will live in safety when I execute my judgments on all {those who despise them from all around them}, and [then] they will know that I [am] Yahweh their God."
"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.
"A son honors [his] father, and a slave his master; but if I [am] a father, where [is] my honor, and if I [am] a master, where [is] my reverence?" says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, {who despise} my name. "But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'
"No one is able to 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 are not able to serve God and money.
"See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven constantly see the face of my Father [who is] in heaven.
No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money."
Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
The one who eats must not despise the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, because God has accepted him.
But why do you judge your brother? Or also, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have [anything]? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise [you]!
And you did not despise or disdain [what was] a trial for you in my flesh, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus.
Do not despise prophecies,
and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust and who despise authority. Bold [and] arrogant, they do not tremble in awe [as they] blaspheme majestic beings,
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- Contemn (3 instances)
- Despise (90 instances)
- Disdain (13 instances)
- Disregard (27 instances)
- Scorn (90 instances)
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