Reviling and Reproaching

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 42:10 OT

  As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 42:11 OT

  Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

• Psalms 44:16 OT

  at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

• Psalms 69:20 OT

  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

• 2 Corinthians 12:10 NT

  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

• Psalms 57:3 OT

  He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

• Psalms 119:42 OT

  So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

• 2 Kings 19:4 OT

  It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant…

• 2 Kings 19:16 OT

  Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

• Psalms 89:50 OT

  Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

• 1 Corinthians 4:12 NT

  We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

• Ezekiel 2:6 OT

  You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious…

• 1 Peter 4:14 NT

  If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

• Matthew 5:11 NT

  “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

• 1 Corinthians 6:10 NT

  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Zephaniah 2:9 OT

  Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder…

• Matthew 5:22 NT

  But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of…

• Genesis 37:19 OT

  They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

• 1 Samuel 17:43 OT

  The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

• 2 Samuel 6:20 OT

  Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain…

• 2 Samuel 16:7 OT

  Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!

• 2 Samuel 16:8 OT

  Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

• Isaiah 37:17 OT

  Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

• Isaiah 37:23 OT

  Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.