Top 25 Bible Verses About Rejection (ESV)

17   When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears
    and delivers them out of all their troubles.
18   The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
    and saves the crushed in spirit.
19   Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
    but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
20   He keeps all his bones;
    not one of them is broken.

18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,

10   For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
    but the LORD will take me in.

9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

14   For the LORD will not forsake his people;
    he will not abandon his heritage;

3   He was despised and rejected by men,
    a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
  and as one from whom men hide their faces
    he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

16 “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

22   The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone.

13   For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14   I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
  Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

15   “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
    that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
  Even these may forget,
    yet I will not forget you.

8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

19 And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

4   Delight yourself in the LORD,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

17   For I will restore health to you,
    and your wounds I will heal,
      declares the LORD,
  because they have called you an outcast:
    ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

16   Come and hear, all you who fear God,
    and I will tell what he has done for my soul.
17   I cried to him with my mouth,
    and high praise was on my tongue.
18   If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
    the Lord would not have listened.
19   But truly God has listened;
    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
20   Blessed be God,
    because he has not rejected my prayer
    or removed his steadfast love from me!

22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.