Thematic Bible: Saints endure, on account of
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Scorning and mocking » Saints endure, on account of » Being children of God
But Sarah noticed the son of Hagar the Egyptian -- the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham -- mocking.
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But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.
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Scorning and mocking » Saints endure, on account of » Their faithfulness in declaring the word of God
Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me. For whenever I prophesy, I must cry out, "Violence and destruction are coming!" This message from the Lord has made me an object of continual insults and derision.
Scorning and mocking » Saints endure, on account of » Their zeal for God's house
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
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Scorning and mocking » Saints endure, on account of » Their faith
And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
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Scorning and mocking » Saints endure, on account of » Their uprightness
I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered -- a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
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