Jeremiah 20:18

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Summary

Jeremiah 20:18

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Came

Job 3:20

Job 14:1

Lamentations 3:1

To see

Hebrews 10:36

With

Bible References

Came

Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

To see

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Truly, truly, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. Ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become into joy.

For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

With

Thou know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee.

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil.

Hearken to me, ye who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, nor be ye dismayed at their revilings.

Indeed therefore they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were considered worthy to be treated shamefully for the name of Jesus.

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.

Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified.