Bible verses about Rejection
Verses for those who feel rejected, about God's welcome and unfailing love.
Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
Psalms 27:10The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
Psalms 34:18The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Psalms 118:22I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.
Isaiah 41:9“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
Isaiah 49:15Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.
Isaiah 49:16He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Isaiah 53:3But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
Jeremiah 30:17Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
Matthew 5:11Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
Matthew 5:12Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
Luke 6:22What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
John 1:11Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
John 6:37If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
John 15:18If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
John 15:19Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:35neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
1 Peter 2:4For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
Psalms 94:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
1 Peter 4:14Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
1 John 3:1