1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.
1 Corinthians 2:3
And I was with you in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling.
Acts 17:18
And certain philosophers from the Epicureans and from the Stoics met him. And some said, What will this babbler say? And others said, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them).
Acts 26:24
And he defending himself with these things, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you rave! Your many letters turn you to insanity.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we are glad when we are weak, and you are powerful. But we pray also for this, your perfection.
2 Kings 9:11
And Jehu went out to the servants of his lord. And one said to him, Well? Why did this mad man come to you? And he said to them, You know the man and what he had to say.
Proverbs 11:12
One despising his friend lacks heart, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
How do you say, We are wise, and the Law of Jehovah is with us? Lo, certainly the lying pen of the scribes has written falsely.
Hosea 9:7
The days of her judgment have come; the days of vengeance have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and the great hatred.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake.
Matthew 10:22-25
And you will be hated of all men for My name's sake, but the one who endures to the end shall be kept safe.
Matthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name's sake.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you off, and when they shall reproach you and shall cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.
Luke 10:16
The one hearing you hears Me, and he who despises you despises Me; he who rejects you also rejects Him who sent Me.
Luke 18:9
And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:
Acts 9:16
For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake.
Acts 17:32
And hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked; and others said, We will hear you again concerning this.
1 Corinthians 1:1-3
Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1 Corinthians 1:18-20
For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:26-28
For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.
1 Corinthians 4:8
Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us! And oh that indeed you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 10:12
So let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
1 Corinthians 10:14-15
Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
2 Corinthians 10:10
For indeed they say, the letters are weighty and powerful, but the bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible.
2 Corinthians 11:19
For you gladly bear with fools, being wise.
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn?
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me.
2 Corinthians 13:3-4
Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me (who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you;
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who also has given us His Holy Spirit.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified.