Hebrews 10:33

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

Made

1 Corinthians 4:9

By reproaches

Whilst

General references

Hebrews 12:4

Bible References

Made

and others experienced the trial of mocking and scourging [amid torture], and even chains and imprisonment.

I am as a wonder to many,
For You are my strong refuge.

“I will throw filth on you
And make you vile and treat you with contempt,
And set you up as a spectacle.

Now listen, Joshua, the high priest, you and your colleagues who are sitting in front of you—indeed they are men who are a symbol [of what is to come]—for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch [in Messianic glory].

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles at the end of the line, like men sentenced to death [and paraded as prisoners in a procession], because we have become a spectacle to the world [a show in the world’s amphitheater], both to angels and to men.

By reproaches

He considered the reproach of the Christ [that is, the rebuke he would suffer for his faithful obedience to God] to be greater wealth than all the treasures of Egypt; for he looked ahead to the reward [promised by God].

So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His contempt [the disgrace and shame that He had to suffer].

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the [mocking] insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man scoffs at You all day long.

And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold
The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.

With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord,
With which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.

“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness (right standing with God),
The people in whose heart is My law and instruction;
Do not fear the reproach and taunting of man,
Nor be distressed at their reviling.

So I am well pleased with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak [in human strength], then I am strong [truly able, truly powerful, truly drawing from God’s strength].

Whilst

It is right for me to feel this way about you, because [you have me in your heart as] I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the good news [regarding salvation], all of you share in [His matchless] grace with me.

Nevertheless, it was right of you to share [with me] in my difficulties.

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same [kind of] persecution from your own countrymen, as they did from the Jews,

So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord or about me His prisoner, but with me take your share of suffering for the gospel [continue to preach regardless of the circumstances], in accordance with the power of God [for His power is invincible],

General references

You have not yet struggled to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;