Thematic Bible: For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure


Thematic Bible



But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard it, they mocked us and despised us and said, “What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

He spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy men of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble even the burned ones?”

I am small and despised,
Yet I do not forget Your precepts.

Then it happened as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

“I am a joke to my friends,
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and blameless man is a joke.

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance.

and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,




Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.



partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated.

So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.



For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.