1 Samuel 2:30

30Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: a‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ bbut now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

2 Samuel 12:10

10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

Malachi 1:6

The Priests’ Polluted Offerings

6 c“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am da father, where is my honor? And if I am ea master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. fBut you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Acts 13:41

41 g“‘Look, you scoffers,
be astounded and perish;
for I am doing a work in your days,
a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”

1 Thessalonians 4:8

8Therefore hwhoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, iwho gives his Holy Spirit to you.

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