When wickedness comes, contempt comes also,
    and with dishonor comes disgrace.

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When wickedness comes, so does contempt,
    and with shame comes reproach.

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10 (A)Drive out a scoffer, (B)and strife will go out,
    and (C)quarreling and abuse will cease.

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10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
    quarrels and insults are ended.(A)

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14 (A)If you are insulted (B)for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory[a] and of God rests upon you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:14 Some manuscripts insert and of power

14 If you are insulted because of the name of Christ,(A) you are blessed,(B) for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

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(A)When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
    but with (B)the humble is wisdom.

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When pride comes, then comes disgrace,(A)
    but with humility comes wisdom.(B)

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With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of (A)debauchery, and (B)they malign you;

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They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.(A)

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16 When the wicked increase, transgression increases,
    but (A)the righteous will look upon their downfall.

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16 When the wicked thrive, so does sin,
    but the righteous will see their downfall.(A)

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(A)Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
    for we have had more than enough of (B)contempt.
Our soul has had more than enough
    of (C)the scorn of (D)those who are at ease,
    of the contempt of (E)the proud.

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Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,
    for we have endured no end of contempt.
We have endured no end
    of ridicule from the arrogant,
    of contempt from the proud.

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20 (A)Reproaches have broken my heart,
    so that I am in (B)despair.
I (C)looked for (D)pity, but there was none,
    and for (E)comforters, but I found none.

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20 Scorn has broken my heart
    and has left me helpless;
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
    for comforters,(A) but I found none.(B)

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For (A)zeal for your house has consumed me,
    and (B)the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

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for zeal for your house consumes me,(A)
    and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.(B)

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(A)Hear, O our God, for we are despised. (B)Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

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Hear us, our God, for we are despised.(A) Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity.

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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 shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

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30 Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?

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39 And (A)those who passed by (B)derided him, (C)wagging their heads 40 and saying, (D)“You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! (E)If you are (F)the Son of God, come down from the cross.” 41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, 42 (G)“He saved others; (H)he cannot save himself. (I)He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 (J)He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 (K)And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.

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39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads(A) 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,(B) save yourself!(C) Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”(D) 41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel!(E) Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe(F) in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him(G) now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

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