Proverbs 11:12

Proverbs 11:12
One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

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Judges 9:27
They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Judges 9:28
Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

Judges 9:29
I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”

Judges 9:38
Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”

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?”

Nehemiah 4:3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

Nehemiah 4:4
“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

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.

Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

John 7:48
Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?

John 7:49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”

John 7:50
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

John 7:51
“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

John 7:52
They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

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1 Samuel 10:27
But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no tribute. But he held his peace.

2 Kings 18:36
But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

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Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalms 59:7
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Proverbs 11:18
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Proverbs 16:27
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

James 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;

James 3:8
but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 15:33
The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Proverbs 29:23
A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

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Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

Job 31:15
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Job 35:5
Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

Job 35:6
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 18:3
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

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Proverbs 1:2
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

Proverbs 10:13
Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Proverbs 19:8
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

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Hosea 7:11
“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

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Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Song of Solomon 8:1
Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.

Song of Solomon 8:7
Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Brothers

Zechariah 4:10
Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

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Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

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Proverbs 14:2
He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Isaiah 37:22
this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

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.

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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Proverbs 28:16
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

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