Bible Verses about “rejection”
The Bible contains 21 verses about rejection across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.”
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
“The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.”
“[The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”
“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
“And he said unto me, ‹My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.› Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
“Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”
“He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.”
“¶ [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
“¶ To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,”
“¶ What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?”
“¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›”
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.”
“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.”
“The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner.”
“‹He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.›”
“For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.”