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1 Corinthians 4 9
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. (niv)
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1 Thessalonians 2 14
For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews (niv)
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Philippians 4:14
Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles. (niv)
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Nahum 3:6
I will pelt you with filth, I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle. (niv)
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Psalms 74:22
Rise up, O God, and defend your cause; remember how fools mock you all day long. (niv)
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Philippians 1:7
It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me. (niv)
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Psalms 71:7
I have become a sign to many; you are my strong refuge. (niv)
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Psalms 79:12
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord. (niv)
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Hebrews 13:13
Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. (niv)
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Zechariah 3:8
“‘ Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch. (niv)
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2 Timothy 1 8
So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. (niv)
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Hebrews 11:26
He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. (niv)
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Psalms 89:51
the taunts with which your enemies, Lord, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one. (niv)
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Hebrews 11:36
Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. (niv)
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Isaiah 51:7
“ Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults. (niv)
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Psalms 69:9
for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me. (niv)
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2 Timothy 1 16-2 Timothy 1 18
May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me.May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus. (niv)
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2 Corinthians 12 10
That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (niv)