12 Bible Verses about Reproach

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate. [For a bishop must be above reproach ??he is a steward of God's house ??he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

You pride yourself on the Law; do you dishonour God by your breaches of the Law?

Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" ??of believers in particular.

partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;

considering obloquy with the messiah to be richer wealth than all Egypt's treasures ??for he had an eye to the Reward.

Let us go to him outside the camp, then, bearing his obloquy

If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.