Contempt

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 22:6 OT

  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

• Isaiah 53:3 OT

  He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

• Matthew 27:29 NT

  They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

• Psalms 119:141 OT

  I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

• 2 Peter 2:10 NT

  but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

• Jude 1:1 NT

  Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

• Proverbs 15:5 OT

  A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

• Proverbs 15:20 OT

  A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

• Job 19:18 OT

  Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

• Psalms 14:6 OT

  You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

• Ecclesiastes 9:16 OT

  Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

• James 2:6 NT

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

• Genesis 16:4 OT

  He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

• 1 Samuel 10:27 OT

  But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

• 1 Samuel 25:10 OT

  Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

• 1 Samuel 25:11 OT

  Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”

• 2 Samuel 6:16 OT

  As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

• Nehemiah 2:19 OT

  But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

• Nehemiah 4:2 OT

  He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since…

• Nehemiah 4:3 OT

  Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

• 2 Corinthians 10:10 NT

  For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”