People and promise
Contempt
Start with Genesis 12:3, where the Bible uses the word contempt in a real sentence: “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treates you with contempt. All the families of…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 12:3
“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treates you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.””
2. Esther 1:17
“For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’”
3. Esther 1:18
“Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.”
4. Job 12:5
“In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.”
5. Job 12:21
“He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.”
6. Job 31:34
“because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—”
7. Psalms 31:18
“Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.”
8. Psalms 107:40
“He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 12:3
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillblessthosewhoblessyou,andIwillhimwhotreatesyouwithAllthefamiliesoftheearthwillbethroughyou.”