Shame

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

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.

And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. — read the full passage →

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; — read the full passage →

As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: — read the full passage →

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.

But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. — read the full passage →

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. — read the full passage →

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →