Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'despised' occurs 74 times in the standard works.

12 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'despised' in the standard works and contain 16.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 53:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 14:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 12:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 17:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 53 0 53
NT 7 0 7
BM 10 0 10
1 Ne. 1 0 1
2 Ne. 2 0 2
Jacob 1 0 1
Mosiah 2 0 2
Alma 4 0 4
DC 2 0 2
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 74 0 74

1 Ne. 19:14
And because they turn their hearts aside, saith the prophet, and have despised the Holy One of Israel, they shall wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a hiss and a byword, and be hated among all nations.

2 Ne. 9:18
But, behold, the righteous, the saints of the Holy One of Israel, they who have believed in the Holy One of Israel, they who have endured the crosses of the world, and despised the shame of it, they shall inherit the kingdom of God, which was prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and their joy shall be full forever.

2 Ne. 15:24
Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be rottenness, and their blossoms 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.

Jacob 4:14
But behold, the Jews were a stiffnecked people; and they despised the words of plainness, and killed the prophets, and sought for things that they could not understand. Wherefore, because of their blindness, which blindness came by looking beyond the mark, they must needs fall; for God hath taken away his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things which they cannot understand, because they desired it. And because they desired it God hath done it, that they may stumble.

Mosiah 14:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Alma 32:5
And they came unto Alma; and the one who was the foremost among them said unto him: Behold, what shall these my brethren do, for they are despised of all men because of their poverty, yea, and more especially by our priests; for they have cast us out of our synagogues which we have labored abundantly to build with our own hands; and they have cast us out because of our exceeding poverty; and we have no place to worship our God; and behold, what shall we do?

Alma 32:12
I say unto you, it is well that ye are cast out of your synagogues, that ye may be humble, and that ye may learn wisdom; for it is necessary that ye should learn wisdom; for it is because that ye are cast out, that ye are despised of your brethren because of your exceeding poverty, that ye are brought to a lowliness of heart; for ye are necessarily brought to be humble.

Alma 33:10
Yea, and thou hast also heard me when I have been cast out and have been despised by mine enemies; yea, thou didst hear my cries, and wast angry with mine enemies, and thou didst visit them in thine anger with speedy destruction.

Alma 46:18
And he said: Surely God shall not suffer that we, who are despised because we take upon us the name of Christ, shall be trodden down and destroyed, until we bring it upon us by our own transgressions.