12 Bible Verses about Reproach

Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,

in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible. For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

do you, who boast in the law, through the transgression of the law dishonor God?

For the name of God is blasphemed by you among the Gentiles, as has been written.

And many will follow their impurities; through whom the way of truth will be slandered:

Blessed are ye, when the people may hate you, and when they may separate you, and cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of man.

For unto this we toil and agonize, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

both indeed in reproaches and tribulations being exposed as a theater, and having become the companions of those being thus exercised.

esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he was looking unto the recompense of reward.

Therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach;

If you suffer reproach in the name of Christ, happy are you, because the spirit of the glory and the spirit of God rest on you.