18 Bible Verses about Being Reproved

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place; But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

But we have a desire to give hearing to your opinion: for as to this form of religion, we have knowledge that in all places it is attacked.

Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.

A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.

And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.

But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.