Being Ashamed

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

“Don’t be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.

Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue, — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God; — read the full passage →

You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.

Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”

“After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you have come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:

There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure. — read the full passage →