13 Bible Verses about Shaming People

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.

You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;