sSee 1 Cor. 2:3
Job 12:5
5In the thought of one who is aat ease there is contempt for misfortune;it is ready for those whose feet slip.
Psalms 119:141
141I am small and despised,yet I do not bforget your precepts.
Ecclesiastes 9:16
16But I say that cwisdom is better than might, though dthe poor man’s wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.Isaiah 53:2-3
2For he grew up before him like a young plant,eand like a root out of dry ground;
fhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 gHe was despised and rejected ▼
▼Or forsaken
by men,a man of sorrows, ▼
▼Or pains; also verse 4
and acquainted with ▼▼Or and knowing
grief; ▼▼Or sickness; also verse 4
and as one from whom men hide their faces ▼
▼Or as one who hides his face from us
he was despised, and mwe esteemed him not.
1 Corinthians 1:28
28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even nthings that are not, to obring to nothing things that are,1 Corinthians 4:10
10 pWe are fools for Christ’s sake, but qyou are wise in Christ. rWe are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.Galatians 4:13
13You know it was sbecause of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you tat first,
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