Whenever you feel rejected, left out, and disappointed, remember that Jesus experienced rejection as well. Whenever you feel rejection from the world, from a relationship, from others, remember God loved you so much that He gave Jesus to die for you. Stay strong because as Christians you will have disappointments in this world.
John 16:33 says, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” You have the Holy Spirit inside you to help you and you have a loving God who will replace your feeling of disappointment for joy and your unloved feeling with happiness and confidence. Always remember that God deeply loves you, He created you, and He has a plan for you. 1 John 4:8 “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
Christian quotes about rejection
“Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.” Rick Warren
“No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.” Archibald Alexander
“To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price–and is a rejection of the gift of God’s grace.” Dave Hunt
“If you live for people’s acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection.”
“Human rejection can be God’s divine protection.”
“God’s “no” is not a rejection, it’s redirection.”
What does the Bible say about rejection?
1. 1 Peter 2:4 “As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious.”
2. John 15:18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.”
3. Psalms 73:26 “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
4. Psalm 16:5 “LORD, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine.”
5. Luke 6:22 “What blessings await you when people hate you and exclude you and mock you and curse you as evil because you follow the Son of Man.”
6. Psalm 118:6 “The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
7. Hebrews 4:15 “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.”
8. Romans 11:2 “God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel.”
Comforting promises for those who feel rejected
9. Psalm 34:17 “When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.”
10. Psalm 94:14 “For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage.”
11. Psalm 27:10 “For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.”
12. Jeremiah 30:17 “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!”
13. Psalm 34:18 “The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
14. Isaiah 49:15 “But the Lord says, “Can a woman forget her baby? Can she forget the child who came from her body? Even if she can forget her children, I cannot forget you.”
15. 1 Samuel 12:22 “Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.”
16. Psalm 37:28 “For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.”
17. Isaiah 40:11 (KJV) “He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.”
18. John 10:14 “I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me.”
19. Psalm 23:1 “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
Commit to God when you feel rejected by God
20. Psalm 37:4 “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
21. Proverbs 16:3 “Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.”
Praying against the feeling of rejection
22. Psalm 27:7 “Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me!”
23. Psalm 61:1 “Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.”
24. Psalm 55:22 “Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.”
25. 1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
26. Psalm 34:4 “I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.”
27. Psalm 9:10 “Those who know your name trust in you because you have not abandoned those who seek you, LORD.”
28. Psalm 27:8 “My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.”
29. Psalm 63:8 “My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.”
How will God help me overcome rejection?
30. Jeremiah 31:25 “I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”
31. Isaiah 40:29 “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”
32. Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
33. Isaiah 40:31 “but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
34. Psalm 54:4 “Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.”
35. Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
God is near
36. Psalm 37:24 “though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.”
37. Psalm 145:14 “The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.”
38. Isaiah 41:10 “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.”
39. Psalm 18:35 “You make your saving help my shield, and your right hand sustains me; your help has made me great.”
40. Psalm 18:35 “You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.”
41. Psalm 73:28 “But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, That I may tell of all Your works.”
42. Psalm 119:151 “You are near, O Lord, And all Your commandments are truth.”
Reminders
43. Romans 8:37-39 “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
44. Hebrews 12:3 “Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.”
45. John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
46. Romans 8:15 “The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
47. 2 Timothy 1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
48. Romans 8:31 “What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
49. Philippians 4:4 “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.”
50. 1 Thessalonians 5:16 “Rejoice at all times.”
Examples of rejection in the Bible
51. Luke 10:16 “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
52. John 1:10-11 “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.”
53. John 15:18 (ESV) “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.”
54. Mark 3:21 “But when His own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, “He is out of His mind.”
55. Genesis 37:20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”
56. Genesis 39:20 (KJV) “And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.”
57. Genesis 16:4-5 “Then he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when Hagar became aware that she had conceived, her mistress was insignificant in her sight. 5 So Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her sight. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
58. John 7:4-6 “For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For not even his brothers believed in him. 6 Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.”
59. Matthew 26:69-74 “Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. “You also were with Jesus of Galilee,” she said. 70 But he denied it before them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. 71 Then he went out to the gateway, where another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.” 72 He denied it again, with an oath: “I don’t know the man!” 73 After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, “Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.” 74 Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed.”
60. Matthew 13:57 “And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”
