Psalms 119:141
I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
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Psalms 119:141
I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
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Genesis 19:31
The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
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Judges 6:15
He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”
Isaiah 60:22
The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”
Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
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1 Samuel 16:11
Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
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1 Samuel 17:42
When the Philistine looked around and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face.
2 Samuel 6:16
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
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
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 they are burned?”
Job 12:4
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
Job 12:5
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
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Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Luke 9:58
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
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Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
Psalms 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalms 119:15
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalms 119:40
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:45
I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
Psalms 119:56
This is my way, that I keep your precepts.
Psalms 119:63
I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
Psalms 119:69
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
Psalms 119:78
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
Psalms 119:87
They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
Psalms 119:94
I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
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Psalms 119:23
Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119:46
I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
Psalms 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Psalms 119:128
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:134
Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
Psalms 119:159
Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
Psalms 119:168
I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.
Psalms 119:173
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
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Psalms 119:138
You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
Psalms 119:144
Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
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Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?
Daniel 11:21
“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
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Amos 7:2
When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
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Obadiah 1:2
Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.
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Ecclesiastes 9:16
Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
1 Corinthians 1:27
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
Galatians 4:13
but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
Galatians 4:14
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
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Hebrews 11:36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
Hebrews 11:38
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
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James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
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