Proverbs 11:2
11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 22:10
22:10 Drive out the scorner and contention will leave;
strife and insults will cease.
Proverbs 29:16
29:16 When the wicked increase, transgression increases,
but the righteous will see their downfall.
Proverbs 29:1
29:1 The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes
will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
Proverbs 20:30
20:30 Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil,
and floggings cleanse the innermost being.
Nehemiah 4:4
4:4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!
Psalms 69:9
69:9 Certainly zeal for your house consumes me;
I endure the insults of those who insult you.
Psalms 69:20
69:20 Their insults are painful and make me lose heart;
I look for sympathy, but receive none,
for comforters, but find none.
Psalms 123:3-4
123:3 Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor!
For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.
123:4 We have had our fill
of the taunts of the self-assured,
of the contempt of the proud.
Matthew 27:39-44
27:39 Those
who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads
27:40 and saying, “You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself!
If you are God’s Son, come down
from the cross!”
27:41 In
the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law
and elders
– were mocking him:
27:42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down
now from the cross, we will believe in him!
27:43 H
e trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”
27:44 The
robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.
Matthew 27:1
Jesus Brought Before Pilate
27:1 When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.
Matthew 4:4
4:4 But he answered,
“It is written, ‘
Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 4:14
4:14 so that what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled: