14 Bible Verses about Despising People
Most Relevant Verses
Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.
Men do not despise a thief if he steals
To satisfy himself when he is hungry;
The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
He who despises his neighbor lacks sense,
But a man of understanding keeps silent.
He who despises his neighbor sins,
But happy is he who is gracious to the poor.
In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
But who honors those who fear the Lord;
He swears to his own hurt and does not change;
A man will be praised according to his insight,
But one of perverse mind will be despised.
“No one can 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 cannot serve God and wealth.
No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
They opened their mouth wide against me;
They said, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”
“Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
To understand a proverb and a figure,
The words of the wise and their riddles.
