Bible Dictionary: Contempt: A Characteristic of the Wicked

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Proverbs 18:3
When the wicked comes, then comes also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
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Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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2 Timothy 3:3
Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
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Library

The Many-Sided Contrast of Wisdom and Folly
... literal sense; for it is the characteristic of animals ... The overthrow of the wicked
is set in striking ... whole, honour attends goodness, and contempt wickedness. ...
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Royal Murderers
... The weak rage and childish sulking of Ahab are very characteristic of a ... She is wicked
and strong. ... in to attest a lie, subornation of evidence, contempt for the ...
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Christ's Sermon on the Mount in Manner and Contents it So ...
... that He begins with beatitudes, is characteristic of the ... be honoured." [3945] Again:
"The wicked shall be ... nor be diminished by their contempt." [3975] What ...
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'Me a Christian!'
... such utter nonsense that, with characteristic Roman contempt ... a very evident connotation
of contempt; and once ... Agrippa and Bernice went their wicked way, and ...
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Desire to Please.
... a genuine one is so palpable and characteristic that it ... those who converse with her
of wicked designs. ... They have a sovereign contempt for every woman, for they ...
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The First Beatitude
... with a smile of pity or of contempt, as the ... II. Turn, now, to the blessed issues
of this characteristic. ... on your knees before God, feeling what a wicked man or ...
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Relation of Manichæism to Zoroastrianism.
... of physical evils and sins is characteristic of Mazdeism ... as it consisted of dead
matter, with the utmost contempt. ... punishment and the purging of wicked men, the ...
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The Cavils of the Pharisees Concerning Purification, and the ...
... Israel, to whom blindness in part' has truly happened; far less to encourage the
wicked spirit of contempt and persecution which is characteristic, not of ...
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The Era of Persecution
... the statue of the emperor was wicked idolatry and ... zeal compelled them to manifest
the contempt in which ... an opportunity to make a characteristic "Roman holiday ...
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The victory of Unarmed Faith
... Goliath's bluster is full of contempt of David and ... Its coarseness is characteristic,"
he will make his boyish ... words of a psalm, 'When the wicked, even mine ...
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Subtopics

Contempt

Contempt of Ministers, is a Despising of God

Contempt: A Characteristic of the Wicked

Contempt: Causes Saints to Cry to God

Contempt: Children of Belial

Contempt: False Teachers

Contempt: Folly of

Contempt: Forbidden Towards: Believing Masters

Contempt: Forbidden Towards: Christ's Little Ones

Contempt: Forbidden Towards: Parents

Contempt: Forbidden Towards: The Poor