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«Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | About: Beauty, Gifts | Keywords: despised, outward, refused
«And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? / I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? / And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: / Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.»
«A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? / Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: despised, if then, polluted
«A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: despised, perverse
«And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: despised, even as, flesh, received, rejected
«And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.»
«And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Abram, despised, Sarai
«Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: despised
«And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: / But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.»
«A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by others»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: despicable, despised

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