partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Parallel translations
- KJV Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
- BSB Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.
- ESV sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
- NKJV partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated;
- NASB partly by being made a public spectacle through insults and distress, and partly by becoming companions with those who were so treated.
- NLT Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.
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Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Cor 4:9For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
- Phil 4:14However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
- Heb 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
- Ps 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
- Isa 51:7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law: Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
- Phil 1:7It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
- 2 Cor 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
- Heb 11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
- Ps 79:12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Ps 89:51With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
- Ps 69:9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
- Ps 71:7I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
- Nah 3:6I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
- Zech 3:8Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.
- 1 Th 2:14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
- 2 Tim 1:8Therefore 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,
- 2 Tim 1:16–18May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
- Heb 13:13Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
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