'Shameful' in the Bible
"If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, so that he exposes her nakedness and she exposes his nakedness, it's a shameful thing. They are to be eliminated from contact with their people in front of their people's children. He has exposed his sister's nakedness. He'll continue to bear responsibility for his iniquity.
May those who say "Aha! Aha!" be turned back because of their shameful deeds.
A righteous person hates deceit, but the wicked person is shameful and disgraceful.
Whoever answers before listening is both foolish and shameful.
Judah, you have as many gods as you have towns, and you have set up as many altars to the shameful idols as there are streets in Jerusalem. You burn incense to Baal on these altars.
Like a gang of thieves that stalk a man, priests commit murder along the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
Run away, you residents of Shaphir, displaying your shameful nakedness. Don't come out, you residents of Zaanan! Your firm standing will disappear as Beth-ezel mourns.
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.
For it is shameful even to mention what is done by these disobedient people in secret.
Because an overseer is God's servant manager, he must be blameless. He must not be arrogant or irritable. He must not drink too much, be a violent person, or make money in shameful ways.
They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.
Therefore, I advise you to buy from me gold purified in fire so you may be rich, white clothes to wear so your shameful nakedness won't show, and ointment to put on your eyes so you may see.
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- Black (69 instances)
- Degrading (3 instances)
- Despicable (12 instances)
- Discreditable (1 instance)
- Disgraceful (26 instances)
- Disreputable (3 instances)
- Humiliating (7 instances)
- Infamous (4 instances)
- Scandalous (3 instances)
- Shameful (41 instances)
- Shocking (4 instances)
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