Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

It must be so, because the Scriptures say: "Here now I lay in Zion a chosen stone, a costly cornerstone, And not a single one who puts his trust in Him will ever be put to shame."

And now, dear children, I repeat, you must continue to live in union with Him, so that if He is unveiled, we may have unshaken confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame when He comes.

wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame; wandering stars that are forever doomed to utter darkness.

(See! I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes ready, so that he may not go naked and people see his shame.)

Even while He was saying this, His opponents were blushing with shame, but all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him.

as the Scripture says: "See, I put on Zion a stone for causing people to stumble, a rock to trip them on, but no one who puts his faith in it will ever be put to shame."

For the Scripture says, "No one who puts his faith in Him will ever be put to shame."

I do not write this to make you blush with shame but to give you counsel as my dear children.

I ask this to make you blush with shame. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a grievance of one brother against another,

Sober up, as is right, and stop sinning, for some of you -- to your shame I say so -- are without any true knowledge of God.

Their doom is destruction, their stomach is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are feeding on earthly things,