Psalms 71:7

7 I have been as aa portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.

Ezekiel 14:8

8And bI will set my face against that man; I cwill make him a sign and a byword dand cut him off from the midst of my people, eand you shall know that I am the Lord.

Zechariah 3:8

8Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for fthey are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring gmy servant hthe Branch.

Luke 2:34

34And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed ifor the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign jthat is opposed

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

9For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, klike men sentenced to death, because we lhave become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. 10 mWe are fools for Christ’s sake, but nyou are wise in Christ. oWe are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11To the present hour pwe hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and qbuffeted and rhomeless, 12and we slabor, working with our own hands. tWhen reviled, we bless; uwhen persecuted, we endure; 13when slandered, we entreat. vWe have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, wthe refuse of all things.

Hebrews 10:33

33sometimes being xpublicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
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