Jeremiah 20:7

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Summary

O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

Thou art

1 Corinthians 9:6

I am

Bible References

Thou art

Or is it Barnabas and I alone who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

I am

Now the Pharisees who were lovers of money had been listening to all this, and they began to ridicule Him.

Then the men who held Him in custody flogged Him and made sport of Him,

Then Herod and his bodyguard treated Him with contempt and made sport of Him and put a gorgeous robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate.

Some of the Epicurean and the Stoic philosophers began to debate with him; and some said, "What is this scraps-of-truth-picker trying to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities." They said so because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.

Still others stood the test of taunts and tortures, and even chains and prisons.