12 Bible Verses about Reproach

Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

namely, if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, and his children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild or rebellious. For the overseer must be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not fond of sordid gain,

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

And many will follow their licentiousness, and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

sometimes being publicly exposed to insult and persecution; and at other times standing side by side with those who were so treated.

He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.

If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.