'Despise' in the Bible

if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a foreign resident in his land.

Why, then, do all of you despise My sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have honored your sons more than Me, by making yourselves fat with the best part of all of the offerings of My people Israel.’

“Therefore, this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Israel:‘Although I saidyour family and your ancestral housewould walk before Me forever,the Lord now says, “No longer!”I will honor those who honor Me,but those who despise Me will be disgraced.

The men of Israel answered the men of Judah: “We have 10 shares in the king, so we have a greater claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Weren’t we the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were harsher than those of the men of Israel.

For the queen’s action will become public knowledge to all the women and cause them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Ahasuerus ordered Queen Vashti brought before him, but she did not come.’

then You dip me in a pit of mud,and my own clothes despise me!

All of my best friends despise me,and those I love have turned against me.

They despise me and keep their distance from me;they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.

For the Lord listens to the needyand does not despiseHis own who are prisoners.

Like one waking from a dream,Lord, when arising, You will despise their image.

He will pay attention to the prayer of the destituteand will not despise their prayer.

The fear of the Lordis the beginning of knowledge;fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Do not despise the Lord’s instruction, my son,and do not loathe His discipline;

People don’t despise the thief if he stealsto satisfy himself when he is hungry.

Don’t speak to a fool,for he will despise the insight of your words.

Listen to your father who gave you life,and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Stop bringing useless offerings.Your incense is detestable to Me.New Moons and Sabbaths,and the calling of solemn assemblies—I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.

Because of Your name, don’t despise us.Don’t disdain Your glorious throne.Remember Your covenant with us;do not break it.

They keep on saying to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord has said: You will have peace.’ They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’”

ח KhetJerusalem has sinned grievously;therefore, she has become an object of scorn.All who honored her now despise her,for they have seen her nakedness.She herself groans and turns away.

You despise My holy things and profane My Sabbaths.

They hate the one who convicts the guiltyat the city gateand despise the one who speaks with integrity.

I hate, I despise your feasts!I can’t stand the stenchof your solemn assemblies.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

You did not despise or reject me though my physical condition was a trial for you. On the contrary, you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

Don’t despise prophecies,

Let no one despise your youth; instead, you should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority.Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;

Nevertheless, these dreamers likewise defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.