Jeremiah 20:7
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7 O Lord, (A)you have deceived me,
and I was deceived;
(B)you are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
(C)I have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
Lamentations 3:14
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Hosea 9:7
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7 (A)The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
(B)The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.
Ezekiel 3:14
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14 (A)The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the (B)hand of the Lord being strong upon me.
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Jeremiah 20:9
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9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
(A)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and (B)I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
Psalm 69:9-12
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9 For (A)zeal for your house has consumed me,
and (B)the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and humbled[a] my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11 When I made (C)sackcloth my clothing,
I became (D)a byword to them.
12 I am the talk of those who (E)sit in the gate,
and the drunkards make (F)songs about me.
Footnotes
- Psalm 69:10 Hebrew lacks and humbled
Hebrews 11:36
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36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even (A)chains and imprisonment.
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1 Corinthians 9:6
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6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
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1 Corinthians 4:9-13
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9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, (A)like men sentenced to death, because we (B)have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. 10 (C)We are fools for Christ's sake, but (D)you are wise in Christ. (E)We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11 To the present hour (F)we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and (G)buffeted and (H)homeless, 12 and we (I)labor, working with our own hands. (J)When reviled, we bless; (K)when persecuted, we endure; 13 when slandered, we entreat. (L)We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, (M)the refuse of all things.
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Acts 17:32
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32 Now when they heard of (A)the resurrection of the dead, (B)some mocked. But others said, (C)“We will hear you again about this.”
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Acts 17:18
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18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, (A)“What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because (B)he was preaching (C)Jesus and the resurrection.
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Luke 23:35-36
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Luke 23:11
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11 And Herod with his soldiers (A)treated him with contempt and (B)mocked him. Then, (C)arraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.
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Luke 22:63-64
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Jesus Is Mocked
63 (A)Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat him. 64 (B)They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, (C)“Prophesy! (D)Who is it that struck you?”
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Luke 16:14
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The Law and the Kingdom of God
14 (A)The Pharisees, who were (B)lovers of money, heard all these things, and they (C)ridiculed him.
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Micah 3:8
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8 But as for me, (A)I am filled with power,
with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob (B)his transgression
and to Israel his sin.
Jeremiah 29:26
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26 ‘The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have (A)charge in the house of the Lord (B)over every madman who prophesies, to put him in (C)the stocks and neck irons.
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Jeremiah 17:16
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16 I have not run away from being your shepherd,
nor have I desired the day of sickness.
(A)You know (B)what came out of my lips;
it was before your face.
Jeremiah 15:18
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18 Why is my pain unceasing,
(A)my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me (B)like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?
Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah's Complaint
10 (A)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! (B)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
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Jeremiah 1:18-19
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18 And I, behold, I make you this day (A)a fortified city, (B)an iron pillar, and (C)bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. 19 (D)They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for (E)I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you.”
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Psalm 35:15-16
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15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
they gathered together against me;
(A)wretches whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing;
16 like profane mockers at a feast,[a]
they (B)gnash at me with their teeth.
Footnotes
- Psalm 35:16 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
2 Kings 2:23
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23 He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
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Numbers 11:11-15
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11 (A)Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, (B)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a (C)nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land (D)that you swore to give their fathers? 13 (E)Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 14 (F)I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
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