12 Bible Verses about Reproach

A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

For as God's overseer a superintendent must be irreproachable, not arrogant or quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain,

Will you boast of the Law and yet dishonor God by breaking it?

For, as the Scripture says, the very name of God is abused among the heathen, because of you!

Many people will follow their immoral ways, and they will cause the true way to be maligned.

"Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you and spurn the name you bear as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

It is for this that we toil and struggle, for we have fixed our hopes on the living God, the Savior of all men, especially those who believe.

sometimes being actually exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violence, and sometimes showing yourselves ready to share the lot of those in that condition.

and thought such contempt as the Christ endured was truer wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking forward to the coming reward.

Let us, therefore, go out to him, outside the camp, sharing the contempt that he endured,

If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.