Thematic Bible: For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure


Thematic Bible



And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it; and they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing which ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to go on? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?

I am little and despised: thy precepts have I not forgotten.

And as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.

I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man.

And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was a youth, and ruddy, and besides of a beautiful countenance.

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;




Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from them, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake:



on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.

therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach:



for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;