Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.
Parallel translations
- WEB partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
- 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.
- 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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Quick answer
They had endured public insult and persecution, and stood with others who suffered likewise. Their faith had cost them dearly.
Overview
The author recalls the specific trials: being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and identifying with fellow believers who were mistreated. This solidarity in suffering displayed genuine faith and love. Remembering such costly faithfulness encourages continued endurance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- 1 Cor 4:9For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
- Phil 4:14Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.
- Phil 1:7It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart. For in my chains and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partners in grace with me.
- 2 Cor 12:10That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
- Heb 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
- Isa 51:7Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
- Ps 74:22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
- Ps 89:51how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
- Ps 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- Zech 3:8Hear now, O high priest Joshua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch.
- Heb 13:13Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.
- Nah 3:6I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
- 2 Tim 1:8So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
- Ps 71:7I have become a portent to many, but You are my strong refuge.
- Heb 11:26He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.
- 1 Th 2:14For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,
- 2 Tim 1:16–18May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
- Ps 69:9because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
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