12 Bible Verses about Reproach

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination. For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

You who boast of the law, by the transgression of the law do you dishonor God?

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations as it is written.

and many shall follow their lewdness, on account of whom the way of truth shall be reviled,

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you from their company, and reproach and cast out your names as evil, on account of the Son of man.

For to this end we also labor and suffer reproach, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

partly in being made a spectacle by reproaches and afflictions, and partly being companions of those so treated.

judging the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had respect to the reward.

Let us therefore go out to him without the encampment, bearing his reproach;

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.