19 Bible Verses about Being Reproved

Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.

Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants, how I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples, with which thine enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Thou know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee.

My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me do curse by me.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.

Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.

For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him. But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

But we think it worthy to hear from thee what thou think. For indeed about this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.

Hearken to me, ye who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, nor be ye dismayed at their revilings.

A fool utters all his anger, but a wise man keeps it back and calms it.

O LORD, thou know. Remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. Take me not away in thy longsuffering. Know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.

And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

Let the priests, the ministers of LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and do not give thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among t

I will gather those who sorrow for the solemn assembly, who were of thee, [to whom] the burden upon her was a reproach.

And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

But he had a rebuke of his own lawbreaking. A mute donkey, uttering in a man's voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.