Bible Verses About Rejection

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

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.

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.

At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?