Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'despised' occurs 74 times in the standard works.

12 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'despised' in the standard works and contain 16.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 53:3 (2 in 1 verse)

 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.





Mosiah 14:3 (2 in 1 verse)

 14:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.





Gen. 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

 16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

 16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.





2 Sam. 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.





Prov. 12:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

 12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

 12:9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.





Ezek. 17:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

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