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SHAME

sham (bosh, "to be ashamed," bosheth, "shame," qalon; aischune, "ignominy," atimia, "dishonor," and other words): An oft-recurring word in Scripture almost uniformly bound up with a sense of sin and guilt. It is figuratively set forth as a wild beast (Jeremiah 3:24), a Nessus-garment (Jeremiah 3:25), a blight (Jeremiah 20:18), a sin against one's own soul (Habakkuk 2:10), and twice as the condensed symbol of Hebrew abomination-Baal (Jeremiah 11:13 margin; Hosea 9:10 margin; see ISH-BOSHETH). It is bracketed with defeat (Isaiah 30:3), reproach (Psalm 69:7 Isaiah 54:4 Micah 2:6), confusion (Isaiah 6:7), nakedness (Isaiah 47:3 Micah 1:11), everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2), folly (Proverbs 18:13), cruelty (Isaiah 50:6 Hebrews 12:2), poverty (Proverbs 13:18), nothingness (Proverbs 9:7 the King James Version), unseemliness (1 Corinthians 11:6; 1 Corinthians 14:35 the King James Version; Ephesians 5:12), and "them that go down to the pit" (Ezekiel 32:25). In the first Biblical reference to this emotion, "shame" appears as "the correlative of sin and guilt" (Delitzsch, New Commentary on Genesis and Biblical Psychology). Shamelessness is characteristic of abandoned wickedness (Philippians 3:19 Jude 1:13, margin "Greek: `shames' "). Manifestly, then, shame is a concomitant of the divine judgment upon sin; the very worst that a Hebrew could wish for an enemy was that he might be clothed with shame (Psalm 109:29), that the judgment of God might rest upon him visibly.

Naturally, to the Hebrew, shame was the portion of those who were idolaters, who were faithless to Yahweh or who were unfriendly to themselves-the elect people of Yahweh. Shame is to come upon Moab because Moab held Israel in derision (Jeremiah 48:39, 27), and upon Edom "for violence against his brother Jacob" (Obadiah 1:10). But also, and impartially, shame is the portion of faithless Israelites who deny Yahweh and follow after strange gods (Ezekiel 7:18 Micah 7:10 Hosea 10:6, and often). But shame, too, comes upon those who exalt themselves against God, who trust in earthly power and the show of material strength (2 Chronicles 32:21 Isaiah 30:3); and upon those who make a mock of righteousness (Job 8:22 Psalm 35:26; Psalm 132:18). With a fine sense of ethical distinctions the Biblical writers recognize that in confessing to a sense of shame there is hope for better things. Only in the most desperate cases is there no sense of shame (Hosea 4:18 Zephaniah 3:5 Philippians 3:19 Jude 1:13); in pardon God is said to remove shame (Isaiah 54:4 twice; Isaiah 61:7).

On conditions beyond the grave the Biblical revelation is exceedingly reticent, but here and there are hints that shame waits upon the wicked here and hereafter. Such an expression as that in Daniel (12:2) cannot be ignored, and though the writing itself may belong to a late period and a somewhat sophisticated theological development, the idea is but a reflection of the earlier and more elementary period, when the voice of crime and cruelty went up from earth to be heard in the audience chamber of God (Genesis 4:11; Genesis 6:13). In the New Testament there is similar reticence but also similar implications. It cannot be much amiss to say that in the mind of the Biblical writers sin was a shameful thing; that part of the punishment for sin was a consciousness of guilt in the sense of shame; and that from this consciousness of guilt there was no deliverance while the sin was unconfessed and unforgiven. "Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt." From one's own past there is no deliverance, save through contrition of spirit and the grace and forgiveness of God. While the sense of shame persists, or, in other words, while the moral constitution of man's nature remains as it is, there will never be wanting an avenger of sin.

Charles M. Stuart

Greek

1788. entrepo -- to turn about, to reverence, to put to shame
... to turn about, to reverence, to put to shame. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration:
entrepo Phonetic Spelling: (en-trep'-o) Short Definition: I turn to confusion ...
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152. aischune -- shame
... shame. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aischune Phonetic Spelling:
(ahee-skhoo'-nay) Short Definition: shame Definition: shame, shamefacedness ...
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1791. entrope -- respect, shame
... respect, shame. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: entrope Phonetic
Spelling: (en-trop-ay') Short Definition: shame Definition: shame. ...
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127. aidos -- a sense of shame
... a sense of shame. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aidos Phonetic
Spelling: (ahee-doce') Short Definition: shame, modesty Definition: shame ...
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2617b. kataischuno -- to put to shame, to disgrace
... 2617a, 2617b. kataischuno. 2618 . to put to shame, to disgrace.
Transliteration: kataischuno Short Definition: disappointed. Word ...
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149. aischron -- shame.
... 148, 149. aischron. 150 . shame. Transliteration: aischron Phonetic Spelling:
(ahee-skhron') Short Definition: shame. Word Origin see aischros. shame. ...
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422. anepaischuntos -- not to be put to shame
... not to be put to shame. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anepaischuntos
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ep-ah'-ee-skhoon-tos) Short Definition: having no cause ...
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153. aischuno -- to dishonor, make ashamed
... ashamed. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: aischuno Phonetic Spelling:
(ahee-skhoo'-nom-ahee) Short Definition: I am ashamed, am put to shame Definition: ...
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2617. kataischuno -- to curse vehemently
... to curse vehemently. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kataischuno Phonetic
Spelling: (kat-ahee-skhoo'-no) Short Definition: I shame, disgrace, put to utter ...
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808. aschemosune -- unseemliness
... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aschemosune Phonetic Spelling:
(as-kay-mos-oo'-nay) Short Definition: unseemliness, shame, nakedness Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew

955. bushah -- shame
... bushah. 956 . shame. Transliteration: bushah Phonetic Spelling: (boo-shaw') Short
Definition: shame. ... part. of bosh Definition shame NASB Word Usage shame (4). ...
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1322. bosheth -- shame, shameful thing
... 1321, 1322. bosheth. 1323 . shame, shameful thing. Transliteration: bosheth
Phonetic Spelling: (bo'-sheth) Short Definition: shame. ...
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1317. boshnah -- shame
... shame. Transliteration: boshnah Phonetic Spelling: (bosh-naw') Short Definition:
shame. ... noun from bosh Definition shame NASB Word Usage shame (1). shame. ...
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4648. Mephibosheth -- "dispeller of shame"
... "dispeller of shame". Transliteration: Mephibosheth or Mephibosheth Phonetic
Spelling: (mef-ee-bo'-sheth) Short Definition: Mephibosheth. ...
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3380. Yerubbesheth -- "shame will contend," a name of Gideon
... "shame will contend," a name of Gideon. Transliteration: Yerubbesheth Phonetic
Spelling: (yer-oob-beh'-sheth) Short Definition: Jerubbesheth. ...
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378. Ish-bosheth -- "man of shame," a son of Saul and king of Isr.
... Ish-bosheth. 379 . "man of shame," a son of Saul and king of Isr. ... Word Origin from
ish and bosheth Definition "man of shame," a son of Saul and king of Isr. ...
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2617b. chesed -- shame, reproach
... shame, reproach. Transliteration: chesed Short Definition: disgrace. Word Origin
from chasad Definition shame, reproach NASB Word Usage disgrace (2). ...
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954. bosh -- to be ashamed
... 1), acts shamefully (3), ashamed (60), ashamed at all (1), became anxious (1), become
dry (1), been confounded (1), been put (8), been put to shame (8), been ...
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2659. chapher -- to be abashed or ashamed
... 1), shamefully (1). be ashamed, be confounded, come be put to shame, bring
reproach. A primitive root (perhaps rath. The same as ...
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3639. kelimmah -- insult, reproach, ignominy
... kalam Definition insult, reproach, ignominy NASB Word Usage disgrace (8), dishonor
(6), humiliation (7), insults (5), reproach (1), reproaches (1), shame (2). ...
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Library

Shame
... SERMON XVIII. SHAME. Romans x.11. For ... Deum? 'O Lord, in Thee have I:trusted:
let me never be confounded,' that is, brought to shame. ...
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Past the Cross with all Its Shame,
... HYMNS OF THE EARLY CHURCH Past the cross with all its shame,. 7,5,7,5,7,5.
Past the cross with all its shame,. All its grief and gloom; ...
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The Shame of Nakedness.
... A Treatise against two letters of the pelagians, Chapter 33."The Shame of
Nakedness. This kind of shame"this necessity of blushing ...
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Of the Shame which Attends all Sexual Intercourse.
... Book XIV. Chapter 18."Of the Shame Which Attends All Sexual Intercourse.
Lust requires for its consummation darkness and secrecy ...
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Heathen Examples Cry Shame Upon this "Infirmity of the Flesh. "
... Chapter XVII."Heathen Examples Cry Shame Upon This "Infirmity of the Flesh.".
[690] They will have plainly a specious privilege ...
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Lust and Shame Come from Sin; the Law of Sin; the Shamelessness of ...
... Book I. Chapter 24."Lust and Shame Come from Sin; The Law of Sin; The
Shamelessness of the Cynics. But if, in like manner, the ...
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The Shame and Spitting
... The Shame and Spitting. A Sermon (No.1486). Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, July
27th, 1879, by. CH SPURGEON,. At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. ...
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Shame on Account of God's Displeasure.
... SHAME ON ACCOUNT OF GOD'S DISPLEASURE. ... God desires that the shame which results
from a sense of His displeasure should last at least as long. ...
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"He that Sleepeth in Harvest is a Son that Causeth Shame. " ...
... "HE THAT SLEEPETH IN HARVEST IS A SON THAT CAUSETH SHAME." PROVERBS x. 5. ... If I am
indolent I shall cause shame to the people who count me one of themselves. ...
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Lust and Travail Come from Sin. Whence Our Members Became a Cause ...
... Book II. On Original Sin. Chapter 41 [XXXVI.]"Lust and Travail Come from
Sin. Whence Our Members Became a Cause of Shame. Granted ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.

2. (n.) Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.

3. (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.

4. (n.) The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.

5. (v. t.) To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame.

6. (v. t.) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.

7. (v. t.) To mock at; to deride.

8. (n.) To be ashamed; to feel shame.

Thesaurus

Shame (412 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades
a person in the estimation of others; disgrace. ...SHAME. ...
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Disgraced (25 Occurrences)
... Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of
the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame...
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Dishonor (47 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach. ... Let them be clothed
with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me. ...
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Abashed (7 Occurrences)
... (See JPS). Psalms 35:4 Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek
after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt. ...
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Disgraceful (17 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful;
dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. ...
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Shamefully (15 Occurrences)
... Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not
walk about naked and men will not see his shame.") (See RSV). ...
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Feeling (59 Occurrences)
... Mark 8:38 Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false
and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of ...
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Shameful (27 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious
to reputation; disgraceful. 2. (a.) Exciting the feeling ...
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Insults (34 Occurrences)
... building. (See NIV). Job 20:3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame.
The spirit of my understanding answers me. (See NAS RSV). ...
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Disgrace (73 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor;
shame; ignominy. 3. (n.) That which brings dishonor; cause ...
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Bible Concordance

Shame (412 Occurrences)

Matthew 1:19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
(See RSV)

Matthew 26:67 Then they put shame on him, and were cruel to him: and some gave him blows, saying,
(BBE)

Matthew 27:30 And they put shame on him, and gave him blows on the head with the rod.
(BBE)

Mark 8:38 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 10:34 And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.
(BBE)

Mark 14:65 And some put shame on him and, covering his face, gave him blows and said to him, Now say what is to come: and the captains took him and gave him blows with their hands.
(BBE)

Mark 15:19 And they gave him blows on the head with a stick and put shame on him and, going down on their knees, gave him worship.
(BBE)

Luke 1:25 The Lord has done this to me, for his eyes were on me, to take away my shame in the eyes of men.
(BBE)

Luke 9:26 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 13:17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
(Root in KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Luke 14:9 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you,'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Luke 18:32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
(Root in WEB ASV BBE RSV)

Luke 20:11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 23:11 And Herod, with the men of his army, put shame on him and made sport of him, and dressing him in shining robes, he sent him back to Pilate.
(BBE)

Acts 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
(KJV BBE WBS NAS)

Acts 24:16 And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
(BBE)

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
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Romans 1:24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
(BBE)

Romans 5:5 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.
(Root in KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Romans 6:21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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Romans 9:21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?
(BBE)

Romans 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
(Root in KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Romans 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
(Root in KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 4:10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 4:14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 5:2 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!
(WEY)

1 Corinthians 6:5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 11:4 Every man who takes part in prayer, or gives teaching as a prophet, with his head covered, puts shame on his head.
(BBE DBY)

1 Corinthians 11:5 But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off.
(BBE DBY)

1 Corinthians 11:6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

1 Corinthians 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
(KJV BBE WBS)

1 Corinthians 11:22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 Corinthians 12:23 And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 14:35 If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Corinthians 15:34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:43 It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:
(BBE)

2 Corinthians 6:8 By glory and by shame, by an evil name and a good name; as untrue, and still true;
(BBE)

2 Corinthians 7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
(Root in KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Corinthians 9:4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
(Root in KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Corinthians 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
(Root in KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 11:21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 12:21 And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.
(BBE)

Galatians 4:14 And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
(BBE)

Galatians 5:11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.
(BBE)

Ephesians 5:12 For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Philippians 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
(Root in KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Philippians 3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Colossians 2:15 Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.
(BBE)

2 Thessalonians 3:14 If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 6:14 To keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:
(BBE)

2 Timothy 1:8 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
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2 Timothy 1:12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day. The Letter to the Hebrews
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Timothy 1:16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Timothy 2:15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Titus 2:8 and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 2:11 For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 6:6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT NAS)

Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
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Hebrews 11:26 Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.
(BBE)

Hebrews 12:2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 12:8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
(BBE)

Hebrews 13:13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.
(BBE)

James 2:6 But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
(BBE)

James 4:9 Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame.
(WEY)

1 Peter 2:6 For it is contained in Scripture, "See, I am placing on Mount Zion a Cornerstone, chosen, and held in honour, and he whose faith rests on Him shall never have reason to feel ashamed."
(Root in WEY ASV BBE DBY YLT RSV NIV)

1 Peter 2:15 Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
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1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
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1 Peter 4:16 But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
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1 John 2:28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
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Jude 1:13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
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Revelation 16:15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."
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Genesis 2:25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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Genesis 30:23 And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.
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Genesis 34:7 Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.
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Genesis 34:14 And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:
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Genesis 38:23 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven't found her."
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Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
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Leviticus 18:17 You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.
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Leviticus 18:21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
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Leviticus 19:8 And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.
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Leviticus 19:12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
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Leviticus 19:29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.
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Leviticus 20:11 And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.
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Leviticus 20:14 And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
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Leviticus 20:17 "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
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Leviticus 20:20 And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.
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Leviticus 20:21 And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.
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Leviticus 21:4 But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.
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Leviticus 21:9 And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.
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Numbers 11:15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
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Numbers 12:14 Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again."
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Deuteronomy 22:29 Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.
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Deuteronomy 25:9 Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.
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Deuteronomy 27:20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.
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Deuteronomy 28:37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
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Deuteronomy 32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish. They are
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Joshua 5:9 And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal, to this day.
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Joshua 7:15 Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.
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Subtopics

Shame

Shame of Adam and Eve

Shame of the Cross

Shame: Destitute of, the Israelites when They Worshiped the Golden Calf

Shame: Jesus Ashamed of Those Who Deny Him

Shame: The Unjust

Related Terms

Disgraced (25 Occurrences)

Dishonor (47 Occurrences)

Abashed (7 Occurrences)

Disgraceful (17 Occurrences)