Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Despise’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Despise’ occurs 93 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 16:4 And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.Genesis 16:4
Genesis 18:28 What if there were five less than fifty of the just? Would you, despite the forty-five, eliminate the entire city?” And he said, “I will not eliminate it, if I find forty-five there.”Genesis 18:28
Genesis 21:7 And again, she said: “Hearing this, who would believe Abraham, that Sarah breast-fed a son, to whom she gave birth, despite being elderly?”Genesis 21:7
Genesis 29:31 But the Lord, seeing that he despised Leah, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.Genesis 29:31
Number of the word / term Despise in Genesis: 4
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 21:8 If she displeases the eyes of her lord, to whom she had been delivered, he shall dismiss her. But he shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, even if he despises her.Exodus 21:8
Number of the word / term Despise in Exodus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 26:15 if you despise my laws, and disdain my judgments, so that you do not accomplish those things which have been established by me, and so that you lead my covenant away into nullification,Leviticus 26:15
Leviticus 26:43 which, when she will be left behind by them, shall be pleased by her Sabbaths, enduring solitude because of them. Yet truly, they shall pray for their sins, because they cast aside my judgments, and they despised my laws.Leviticus 26:43
Leviticus 26:44 And even after so much, when they were in the land of their enemy, I did not cast them off entirely, and I did not so despise them that they would be consumed, nor so that I would nullify my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.Leviticus 26:44
Number of the word / term Despise in Leviticus: 3
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 5:27 And when she drinks it, if she has been defiled, and, having despised her husband, is guilty of adultery, the curse shall pass through her, and as her belly swells up, her thigh shall decay, and the woman shall become a curse and an example to all the people.Numbers 5:27
Numbers 14:11 And the Lord said to Moses: “How long will this people disparage me? How long will they refuse to believe me, despite all the signs that I have wrought before them?Numbers 14:11
Numbers 15:31 For he has despised the word of the Lord, and he has nullified his precept. For this reason, he shall be destroyed, and he shall bear his iniquity.”Numbers 15:31
Number of the word / term Despise in Numbers: 3
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1:32 And yet, despite all of this, you did not believe the Lord your God,Deuteronomy 1:32
Number of the word / term Despise in Deuteronomy: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Judges
Judges 2:20 And the fury of the Lord was enraged against Israel, and he said: “For this people has made void my covenant, which I had formed with their fathers, and they have despised listening to my voice.Judges 2:20
Number of the word / term Despise in Judges: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 2:30 Because of this, the Lord God of Israel says: I have spoken clearly, so that your house, and the house of your father, may minister in my sight, even forever. But now the Lord says: May this be far from me. Instead, whoever will have glorified me, I will glorify him. But whoever despises me, they will be despised.1 Samuel 2:30
1 Samuel 10:27 Yet the sons of Belial said, “How could this one be able to save us?” And they despised him, and they brought him no presents. But he pretended not to hear them.1 Samuel 10:27
1 Samuel 17:42 And when the Philistine had seen and considered David, he despised him. For he was a youth, ruddy and of handsome appearance.1 Samuel 17:42
Number of the word / term Despise in 1 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 6:16 And when the ark of the Lord had entered into the city of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord. And she despised him in her heart.2 Samuel 6:16
2 Samuel 12:9 Therefore, why have you despised the word of the Lord, so that you did evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword. And you have taken his wife as a wife for yourself. And you have put him to death with the sword of the sons of Ammon.2 Samuel 12:9
2 Samuel 12:10 For this reason, the sword shall not withdraw from your house, even perpetually, because you have despised me, and you have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, so that she may be your wife.’2 Samuel 12:10
Number of the word / term Despise in 2 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 1:13 Again, he sent a third leader of fifty men and the fifty who were with him. And when he had arrived, he bent his knees before Elijah, and he pleaded with him, and said: “Man of God, do not choose to despise my life and the lives of your servants who are with me.2 Kings 1:13
Number of the word / term Despise in 2 Kings: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles 15:29 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord had arrived in the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, gazing through a window, saw king David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.1 Chronicles 15:29
Number of the word / term Despise in 1 Chronicles: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 4:4 Listen, O our God, for we have become an object of contempt. Turn their reproach upon their own head, and grant that they may be despised in a land of captivity.Nehemiah 4:4
Number of the word / term Despise in Nehemiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Esther
Esther 3:13 These were sent by the king’s messengers to all the provinces, so as to kill and destroy all the Jews, from children all the way to the elderly, even little children and women, on one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and to plunder their goods, even their necessities. And this was the text of the letter: “Artaxerxes, the great king from India all the way to Ethiopia, to the leaders and generals of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces, which are subject to his authority, greetings. Although I have reigned over many nations and subjugated the whole world under my realm, I was by no means willing to abuse the greatness of this power, but to govern my subjects with clemency and leniency, so that they would settle into a quiet life, apart from any terror, and delight in peace, as all mortals would choose to do. Yet, in asking my counselors how this might be able to be accomplished, one who excelled the others in wisdom and fidelity, and who was second after the king, named Haman, explained to me that there was a people, scattered throughout the whole world, that used strange laws, and, acting against the customs of all peoples, despised the commandments of kings and violated the harmony of all nations with their dissension. When we had learned this, seeing one nation rebellious against all mankind, having overthrown the usefulness of laws, and going against our orders, and disturbing the peace and harmony of the provinces subject to us, we commanded that whomever Haman, who is chief over all the provinces, and second after the king, and whom we honor in the place of a father, whomever he would point out should be destroyed by their enemies, with their wives and children, and that no one may take pity on them, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year, so that these guilty men, all on one day, may go down to the underworld, restoring to our empire the peace that they had disturbed.”Esther 3:13
Number of the word / term Despise in Esther: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Job
Job 12:5 The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.Job 12:5
Job 31:13 If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me,Job 31:13
Job 39:7 He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.Job 39:7
Job 39:22 He despises fear; he does not turn away from the sword.Job 39:22
Number of the word / term Despise in Job: 4
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 22:24 May all the offspring of Israel fear him. For he has neither spurned nor despised the pleas of the poor. Neither has he turned his face away from me. And when I cried out to him, he heeded me.Psalm 22:24
Psalm 27:9 Do not turn your face away from me. In your wrath, do not turn aside from your servant. Be my helper. Do not abandon me, and do not despise me, O God, my Saviour.Psalm 27:9
Psalm 55:1 Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication.Psalm 55:1
Psalm 69:33 For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.Psalm 69:33
Psalm 89:38 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.Psalm 89:38
Psalm 102:17 He has noticed of the prayer of the humble, and he has not despised their petition.Psalm 102:17
Psalm 119:118 You have despised all those who fell away from your judgments. For their intention is unjust.Psalm 119:118
Number of the word / term Despise in Psalm: 7
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.Proverbs 1:7
Proverbs 1:25 You have despised all my counsels, and you have neglected my rebukes.Proverbs 1:25
Proverbs 11:12 Whoever despises his friend is destitute in heart. But the prudent man will remain silent.Proverbs 11:12
Proverbs 14:2 One who walks on a virtuous journey, and who fears God, is despised by him who advances along a disreputable way.Proverbs 14:2
Proverbs 14:21 Whoever despises his neighbor, sins. But whoever pities the poor shall be blessed. Whoever trusts in the Lord loves mercy.Proverbs 14:21
Proverbs 15:20 A wise son gladdens the father. But the foolish man despises his mother.Proverbs 15:20
Proverbs 15:32 Whoever rejects discipline despises his own soul. But whoever agrees to correction is a possessor of the heart.Proverbs 15:32
Proverbs 17:5 Whoever despises the poor rebukes his Maker. And whoever rejoices in the ruin of another will not go unpunished.Proverbs 17:5
Proverbs 23:9 Do not speak into the ears of the unwise. They will despise the doctrine of your eloquence.Proverbs 23:9
Proverbs 23:22 Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.Proverbs 23:22
Proverbs 28:27 Whoever gives to the poor shall not be in need. Whoever despises his petition will suffer scarcity.Proverbs 28:27
Proverbs 30:17 The eye of one who mocks his father and who despises the childbearing of his mother, let the ravens of the torrent tear it out, and let the sons of the eagles consume it.Proverbs 30:17
Number of the word / term Despise in Proverbs: 12
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the works of God, that no one is able to correct whomever he has despised.Ecclesiastes 7:13
Ecclesiastes 9:2 But all things in the future remain uncertain, because all things happen equally to the just and to the impious, to the good and to the bad, to the pure and to the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and to those who despise sacrifices. As the good are, so also are sinners. As those who commit perjury are, so also are those who swear to the truth.Ecclesiastes 9:2
Number of the word / term Despise in Ecclesiastes: 2
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Song
Song of Solomon 8:1 Bride to Groom: Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?Song of Solomon 8:1
Song of Solomon 8:7 A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing.Song of Solomon 8:7
Number of the word / term Despise in Song: 2
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you who plunder! Will you yourselves not also be plundered? And woe to you who despise! Will you yourselves not also be despised? When you will have completed your plundering, you will be plundered. When, out of fatigue, you will have ceased acting with contempt, you will be treated with contempt.Isaiah 33:1
Isaiah 37:22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken over him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and mocked you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.Isaiah 37:22
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and the least among men, a man of sorrows who knows infirmity. And his countenance was hidden and despised. Because of this, we did not esteem him.Isaiah 53:3
Isaiah 58:7 Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh.Isaiah 58:7
Number of the word / term Despise in Isaiah: 4
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me. And I will forgive all their iniquities, by which they have offended against me and have despised me.Jeremiah 33:8
Jeremiah 33:24 “Have you not seen what this people has spoken? They say: ‘The two families which the Lord had chosen have been rejected.’ And so they have despised my people, as if they were no longer a nation in their sight.Jeremiah 33:24
Number of the word / term Despise in Jeremiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 5:6 And she has despised my judgments, so as to be more impious than the Gentiles, and my precepts, more so than the lands that are all around her. For they have cast aside my judgments, and they have not walked in my precepts.”Ezekiel 5:6
Ezekiel 16:59 For thus says the Lord God: “I will act toward you, just as you have despised the oath, so that you would make void the covenant.Ezekiel 16:59
Ezekiel 17:18 For he has despised an oath, in that he broke the pact. And behold, he had given his hand. And so, since he has done all these things, he shall not escape.Ezekiel 17:18
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net over him, and he will be captured in my dragnet. And I will lead him into Babylon, and I will judge him there for the transgression by which he has despised me.Ezekiel 17:20
Ezekiel 20:27 For this reason, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God. Yet also in this did your fathers blaspheme me, after they had spurned and despised me,Ezekiel 20:27
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have despised my law, and they have defiled my sanctuaries. They have held no distinction between holy and profane. And they have not understood the difference between defiled and clean. And they have averted their eyes from my Sabbaths. And I was profaned in their midst.Ezekiel 22:26
Number of the word / term Despise in Ezekiel: 6
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Joel
Joel 2:13 And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and convert to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and merciful, patient and full of compassion, and steadfast despite ill will.Joel 2:13
Number of the word / term Despise in Joel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Jonah
Jonah 4:2 And he prayed to the Lord, and he said, “I beg you, Lord, was this not my word, when I was still in my own land? Because of this, I knew beforehand to flee into Tarshish. For I know that you are a lenient and merciful God, patient and great in compassion, and forgiving despite ill will.Jonah 4:2
Number of the word / term Despise in Jonah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Nahum
Nahum 3:11 Therefore, you also will become inebriated, and you will be despised, and you will seek help from the opposition.Nahum 3:11
Number of the word / term Despise in Nahum: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Zephaniah
Zephaniah 3:7 I said: Nevertheless, you will fear me; you will accept discipline. And her dwelling place will not perish, despite all the things about which I have visited her. Yet truly, they arose with the dawn and corrupted all their thoughts.Zephaniah 3:7
Number of the word / term Despise in Zephaniah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Zechariah
Zechariah 4:10 For who has despised the little days? And they will rejoice and will see the silver and lead stone in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the seven eyes of the Lord, which roam quickly through all the earth.Zechariah 4:10
Number of the word / term Despise in Zechariah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Malachi
Malachi 1:6 The son honors the father, and the servant his master. If, therefore, I am Father, where is my honor? And if I am Master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And you have said, “In what way, have we despised your name?”Malachi 1:6
Malachi 1:7 You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say, “In what way, have we polluted you?” In that you say, “The table of the Lord has been despised.”Malachi 1:7
Malachi 2:10 Is there not one Father of us all? Did not one God create us? Why, then, does each one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?Malachi 2:10
Malachi 2:14 And you have said, “What is the reason for this?” It is because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have despised. Yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.Malachi 2:14
Malachi 2:15 Did not One make her, and is she not the remainder of his spirit? And what does one seek, except offspring of God? So then, preserve your spirit, and do not despise the wife of your youth.Malachi 2:15
Malachi 2:16 If you would hold hatred, dismiss her, says the Lord, the God of Israel. But iniquity will cover his garment, says the Lord of hosts. Preserve your spirit, and do not be willing to despise.Malachi 2:16
Number of the word / term Despise in Malachi: 6
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 6:24 No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.Matthew 6:24
Matthew 18:10 See to it that you do not despise even one of these little ones. For I say to you, that their Angels in heaven continually look upon the face of my Father, who is in heaven.Matthew 18:10
Number of the word / term Despise in Matthew: 2
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Luke
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law despised the counsel of God concerning themselves, by not being baptized by him.Luke 7:30
Luke 10:16 Whoever hears you, hears me. And whoever despises you, despises me. And whoever despises me, despises him who sent me.”Luke 10:16
Luke 16:13 No servant is able to serve two lords. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”Luke 16:13
Number of the word / term Despise in Luke: 3
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book John
John 12:48 Whoever despises me and does not accept my words has one who judges him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him on the last day.John 12:48
Number of the word / term Despise in John: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Acts
Acts 20:19 serving the Lord, with all humility and despite the tears and trials which befell me from the treacheries of the Jews,Acts 20:19
Number of the word / term Despise in Acts: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Romans
Romans 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance?Romans 2:4
Romans 14:3 He who eats should not despise him who does not eat. And he who does not eat should not judge him who eats. For God has accepted him.Romans 14:3
Romans 14:10 So then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.Romans 14:10
Number of the word / term Despise in Romans: 3
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 16:11 Therefore, let no one despise him. Instead, lead him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me. For I am awaiting him with the brothers.1 Corinthians 16:11
Number of the word / term Despise in 1 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 6:8 through honor and dishonor, despite good reports and bad, whether seen as deceivers or truth-tellers, whether ignored or acknowledged;2 Corinthians 6:8
Number of the word / term Despise in 2 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Galatians
Galatians 4:14 You did not despise or reject me. But instead, you accepted me like an Angel of God, even like Christ Jesus.Galatians 4:14
Number of the word / term Despise in Galatians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 1 Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians 4:8 And so, whoever despises these teachings, does not despise man, but God, who has even provided his Holy Spirit within us.1 Thessalonians 4:8
Number of the word / term Despise in 1 Thessalonians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 1 Timothy
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but be an example among the faithful in word, in behavior, in charity, in faith, in chastity.1 Timothy 4:12
1 Timothy 6:2 But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather serve them all the more because they are believing and beloved, participants of the same service. Teach and exhort these things.1 Timothy 6:2
Number of the word / term Despise in 1 Timothy: 2
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Titus
Titus 2:15 Speak and exhort and argue these things with all authority. Let no one despise you.Titus 2:15
Number of the word / term Despise in Titus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Hebrews
Hebrews 6:5 who, despite having tasted the good Word of God and the virtues of the future age, have yet fallen away,Hebrews 6:5
Number of the word / term Despise in Hebrews: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book 2 Peter
2 Peter 2:10 even more so, those who walk after the flesh in unclean desires, and who despise proper authority. Boldly pleasing themselves, they do not dread to introduce divisions by blaspheming;2 Peter 2:10
Number of the word / term Despise in 2 Peter: 1
Bible passages with ‘Despise’ in the book Jude
Jude 1:8 Similarly also, these ones certainly defile the flesh, and they despise proper authority, and they blaspheme against majesty.Jude 1:8
Number of the word / term ‘Despise’ in Jude: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 93
