19 Bible Verses about Being Reproved

You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.

Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations, with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse.

I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.

let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.

Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!

For it is not an enemy who taunts me-- then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me-- then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

But we desire to hear from you what your views are, for with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against."

"Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings.

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.

and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.

Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.