19 Bible Verses about Being Reproved

You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people! Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.

I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults.

O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him. But it is you, a man like me, my close friend in whom I confided.

Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it."

Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law! Don't be afraid of the insults of men; don't be discouraged because of their abuse!

A fool lets fly with all his temper, but a wise person keeps it back.

I said, "Lord, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

Let the priests, those who serve the Lord, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say, "Have pity, O Lord, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, "Where is their God?"

"As for those who grieve because they cannot attend the festivals -- I took them away from you; they became tribute and were a source of shame to you.

And he must be well thought of by those outside the faith, so that he may not fall into disgrace and be caught by the devil's trap.

yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet's madness).