Bible Verses About Feeling Rejected

If you’ve ever experienced rejection, you know how painful it can be. Everyone has experienced rejection in their lives and at some point in life and moving forward you may experience plenty more. But, rejection is, unfortunately, a part of life but it is how you respond to it that makes all the difference.

Rejection is one of the most common tools that the devil uses to try to destroy our lives. But remember that Jesus was rejected that so that we might be accepted.

He was rejected by the religious leaders of his day because he wasn’t fulfilling their expectations.

Rejection is one of the hardest things to deal with in life, and for a lot of people, it can cause emotional and spiritual damage. If you are feeling rejected or have been hurt by rejection know that God is ready to heal your heart.

Here are some verses to help you get through any rejections you have faced.

Bible Verses About Feeling Rejected

Leviticus 26:43 – The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Leviticus 26:43 – The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Numbers 14:31 – But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Deuteronomy 32:15 – But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

1 Samuel 8:7 – The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

1 Samuel 10:19 – But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us!’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”

1 Samuel 15:23 – For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the Lord’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.

1 Samuel 15:26 – Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the Lord’s word, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16:1 – The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.

1 Samuel 16:7 – But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

2 Kings 17:15 – They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

2 Kings 17:20 – The Lord rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.

Psalm 43:2 – For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 44:9 – But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

Psalm 53:5 – There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Psalm 60:1 – For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Psalm 60:10 – Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

Psalm 74:1 – A contemplation by Asaph.God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Psalm 78:67 – Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psalm 89:38 – But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Psalm 108:11 – Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.

Psalm 118:22 – The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Isaiah 5:24 – Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of the Lord of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 53:3 – He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Jeremiah 2:37 – You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.

Jeremiah 6:19 – Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Jeremiah 6:30 – Men will call them rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.

Jeremiah 7:29 – Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jeremiah 8:9 – The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected the Lord’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Jeremiah 14:19 – Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

Jeremiah 15:6 – You have rejected me,” says the Lord. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

Lamentations 5:22 – But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.

Ezekiel 5:6 – She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.

Ezekiel 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20:16 – because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:24 – because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

Hosea 4:6 – My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Amos 2:4 – The Lord says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected the Lord’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

Matthew 21:42 – Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’? Psalm 118:22-23

Mark 8:31 – He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Mark 12:10 – Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner.

Luke 7:30 – But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

Luke 9:22 – saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

Luke 17:25 – But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

Luke 20:17 – But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone?

Acts 7:39 – to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

1 Corinthians 9:27 – but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

1 Timothy 4:4 – For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

1 Timothy 5:12 – having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

2 Timothy 3:8 – Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

Hebrews 6:8 – but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

Hebrews 12:17 – For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

1 Peter 2:4 – coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

1 Peter 2:7 – For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,