16 Bible Verses about Reproach
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The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach;
That way you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. You are seen as lights in the world.
A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience. The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent (quarrelsome) (pugnacious), not greedy of dishonest gain.
You have shown total contempt for Jehovah by this affair. Therefore the son that is born to you must die.
I said: What you are doing is not good. Is it not necessary for you to walk out of respect for our God, because of the shame the nations put on us?
Wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them: 'These are Jehovah's people, yet they had to leave his land.'
You who boast in the law do you by transgression of the law dishonor God?
The name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, just as it is written. (Ezekiel 36:20, 21)
Many will follow their lascivious (filthy sensual) deeds. The way of the truth will be maligned.
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
This is why we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
You were at times publicly insulted and mistreated. Other times you were ready to join those who were being treated in this way.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. He looked intently (respectfully) for the payment of the reward.
Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
Some good-for-nothing people asked: How can this man save us? They despised him and would not bring him presents. He did not respond.
From Thematic Bible
Reproach » Suffered
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. He looked intently (respectfully) for the payment of the reward.
This is why we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
You were at times publicly insulted and mistreated. Other times you were ready to join those who were being treated in this way.
Reproach » Inconsistency in religious life brings reproach upon the cause of truth
You have shown total contempt for Jehovah by this affair. Therefore the son that is born to you must die.
Wherever they went among the nations, they dishonored my holy name. People said about them: 'These are Jehovah's people, yet they had to leave his land.'
Many will follow their lascivious (filthy sensual) deeds. The way of the truth will be maligned.
I said: What you are doing is not good. Is it not necessary for you to walk out of respect for our God, because of the shame the nations put on us?
You who boast in the law do you by transgression of the law dishonor God? The name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, just as it is written. (Ezekiel 36:20, 21)
Reproach » Who reproaches the lord
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Jehovah. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
When you mock the poor you disgrace your Maker. He who is glad at calamity will be punished.
Reproach » The reproaches of man falling on jesus Christ
For even Christ did not please himself. However it is written, The reproaches (insults) hurled at you have fallen on me. (Psalm 69:9)
([Psalm of David]) Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck! I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God. read more.
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away. O God, you know my foolishness. My sins are not hidden from you. Do not let those who wait for you to be shamed through me, Lord Jehovah of Hosts. Do not let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel. Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children. Zeal for your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Reproach » Who is a son that brings reproach
He who assaults his father and chases away his mother is a shameful and disgraceful son.
Reproach » What is a reproach to any people
Reproach » How reproach ceases
Throw out the scoffer and contention will go away, yes, strife and reproach will cease.
