19 Bible Verses about Being Reproved

Thou dust make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:

Remember, O My Lord, the reproach of thy servants, I have carried in my bosom the insult of the peoples: In that thy foes have reproached, O Yahweh, In that they have reproached the footsteps of thine Anointed One!

Thou, knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion, Before thee, are all mine adversaries.

All the day, have mine enemies, reproached me, And, they who are mad against me, by me, have sworn.

The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit - out of my understanding, will give me a reply.

So, I, am become a reproach for them, They see me, they shake their head.

Let him give, to him that smiteth him, his cheek, let him be sated with reproach.

Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:

For it is, not an enemy, that reproacheth me, Or I could bear it, - Not one that hath hated me, who, against me, hath magnified himself, Or I might hide myself from him; But it is, thou, a man esteemed as mine equal, mine associate, and mine acquaintance;

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am weak, - Though I waited for one to pity me, yet there was none, And for comforters, yet I found not any.

But we deem it well, that, from thee, we should hear what are thine opinions; for, indeed, concerning this sect, it is, known to us, that, everywhere, is it spoken against.

Hearken unto me ye who discern righteousness, The people in whose heart is my law, - Do not fear the reproach of frail men, Nor at their revilings, be dismayed;

All his anger, doth a dullard let go, but, a wise man, by keeping it back, stilleth it.

Thou knowest - O Yahweh Remember me and visit me and avenge me upon my persecutors, Do not of thy longsuffering, take me away, - Know - I have borne for thy sake, reproach.

And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on,

Between the porch and the altar, let the priests, weep, the attendants of Yahweh, - and let them say - Look with pity, O Yahweh, upon thy people, and do not deliver thine inheritance to reproach, that the nations, should mock them, Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

The sad exiles from the appointed meeting, have I gathered, from thee, had they been! but were a burden on thee - a reproach!

It is needful, moreover, to have, an honourable testimony also, from them who are without, lest, into reproach, he fall, and the snare of the adversary.

But had, a reproof, of his own transgression, a dumb beast of burden, in man's voice, finding utterance, forbade the prophet's madness.