'Reproach' in the Bible

They said to me, "The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!"

Then I said to them, "You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let's rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue."

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

Then I said, "The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away;

When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.

I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.

The overseer then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

Reinforce these commands, so that they will be beyond reproach.