12 Bible Verses about Reproach

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,

men who are blameless, the husband of one wife, with believing children who are not accused of riot or insubordination. For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre;

You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned.

"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

"We toil and agonize because our hopes are set on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all men,??f believers in particular.

partly by being made a public spectacle in reproaches and afflictions, and partly by sharing the fortunes of those that were so used.

He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you.