19 Bible Verses about Being Reproved

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, [how] I bear in my bosom [the taunts of] all [the] many peoples, [by] which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, [by] which they taunt the steps of your anointed one.

You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. {Fully known} to you are all my adversaries.

All the day my enemies reproach me; those who mock me swear [oaths] against me.

I hear discipline that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.

And [so] I am a disgrace to them; [when] they see me, they shake their heads.

Let him give a cheek to his smiter, let him be filled with disgrace.

Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace!

For [it is] not an enemy [that] taunts me, or I could bear [it]. [It is not] one who hates me [that] magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him. But [it is] you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant.

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for concerning this sect it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere."

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people [who have] my teaching in their heart; you must not fear [the] reproach of men, or be terrified because of their abuse.

A fool gives all his breath, but [the] wise holds back in quiet.

You who know, Yahweh, remember me, and attend to me, and take revenge for me against my persecutors {in your forbearance}. You must take me away. Know [that] I [am] carrying disgrace because of you.

and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;

Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among [the] nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where [is] their God?'"

I will gather those of you grieving on account of the feast; they were raising against her a reproach.

But [he] must also have a good testimony from those outside, in order that he may not fall into disgrace and the trap of the devil.

but received a rebuke for his own lawlessness: a speechless donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained {the prophet's madness}.