Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
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Speaking
1 Peter 2:12
and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.
1 Peter 3:16
Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.
Acts 18:6
When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!"
2 Peter 2:12
But these men, like irrational animals -- creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed -- do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,
Jude 1:10
But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.
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Proverbs 18:3
When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.
Isaiah 32:16
Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard.
Colossians 3:7
You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.
Hebrews 13:13
We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.