Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Because

Psalm 22:6-8 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. . . .

Psalm 44:22 Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Jeremiah 15:15 O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.

John 15:21-24 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me. . . .

shame

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Isaiah 53:3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

Matthew 26:67,68 Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands, . . .

Matthew 27:29,30,38-44 And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews. . . .

Luke 23:11,35-37 And Herod with his army set him at nought and mocked him, putting on him a white garment: and sent him back to Pilate. . . .

Hebrews 12:2 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.