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 mockings and scourgings, as well as bonds and imprisonment.

I have become an ominous sign to many,
but You are my strong refuge.

I will throw filth on you
and treat you with contempt;
I will make a spectacle of you.

“Listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your colleagues sitting before you; indeed, these men are a sign that I am about to bring My servant, the Branch.

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

By reproaches

For he considered the reproach because of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.

Let us then go to Him outside the camp, bearing His disgrace.

because zeal for Your house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult You
have fallen on me.

Rise up, God, defend Your cause!
Remember the insults
that fools bring against You all day long.

Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors
the reproach they have hurled at You, Lord.

how Your enemies have ridiculed, Lord,
how they have ridiculed every step of Your anointed.

Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is My instruction:
do not fear disgrace by men,
and do not be shattered by their taunts.

So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Whilst

It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and establishment of the gospel.

Still, you did well by sharing with me in my hardship.

For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews

So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me His prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.

General references

In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.