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


Thematic Bible



But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?

And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

I am small and despised: yet do I not forget your precepts.

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

I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he despised him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:




Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.



Partly, while you were made a public display both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that were so used.

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



For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.