40 Bible Verses about Contempt
Want to know what the Bible says about Contempt? Here are 40 Bible verses about Contempt from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Psalm 14:6 NIV
You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,
but the Lord is their refuge.
but the Lord is their refuge.
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Ecclesiastes 9:16 NIV
So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.
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James 2:6 NIV
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
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Genesis 16:4 NIV
He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
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1 Samuel 10:27 NIV
But some scoundrels said, “How can this fellow save us?” They despised him and brought him no gifts. But Saul kept silent.
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1 Samuel 25:10-11 NIV
10 Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days. 11 Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”
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2 Samuel 6:16 NIV
As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
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Nehemiah 2:19 NIV
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”
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Nehemiah 4:2-3 NIV
2 and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble —burned as they are?”
3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, “What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!”
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2 Corinthians 10:10 NIV
For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.”
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