Proverbs 18:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

When the wicked comes, contempt also comes, and with dishonor, reproach.

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  • 1 Sam 20:30 : 30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own confusion, and to the confusion of your mother's nakedness?
  • Neh 4:4 : 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them as prey in a land of captivity:
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
  • Prov 11:2 : 2 When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the humble is wisdom.
  • Prov 22:10 : 10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out; yes, strife and reproach shall cease.
  • Prov 29:16 : 16 When the wicked multiply, transgression increases; but the righteous shall see their fall.
  • Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, 40 And saying, You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. 43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 The thieves also, who were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
  • 1 Pet 4:4 : 4 Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is spoken of as evil, but on your part he is glorified.

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