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

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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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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

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

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

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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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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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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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(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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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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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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