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“‘The priests are to perform my service in such a way that they do not become guilty and die for treating it with contempt. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.
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The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?
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not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.
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But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”
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Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
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All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.
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This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they were treating the Lord’s offering with contempt.
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When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
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But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.”
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Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king; so we have a greater claim on David than you have. Why then do you treat us with contempt? Weren’t we the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the men of Judah pressed their claims even more forcefully than the men of Israel.
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Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
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He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
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because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—
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Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors and an object of dread to my closest friends— those who see me on the street flee from me.
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Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
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We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.
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Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.
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he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.
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Remove from me their scorn and contempt, for I keep your statutes.
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Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.
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We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.
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Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
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Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.
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When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach.
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Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.
